Tagged: layoffs

Kodak is kicking off a new round of job cuts - another 91 people in the Rochester area will be out of work by late May.

But the much bigger drop in Kodak's local employment figure is actually the result of a new accounting practice.

Yesterday Time Warner Cable announced plans to cut 155 jobs at an Albany call center.

The company will eliminate telemarketing positions in Albany, and relocate its sales operations to Raleigh, North Carolina.

Sealed Air, a packaging manufacturer with about 26,000 workers worldwide, is closing at least two plants in upstate New York.

The company announced Thursday it was closing its Rochester facility.

A filing with the New York State Department of Labor also shows a plant closing in the Schenectady suburb of Scotia, N.Y.

The Capital Region plant will be shuttered by May 20.

About 180 Sealed Air workers in Rochester will lose their jobs. Another 70 will be affected in Scotia. 

In his first step towards cutting the state's looming $9.3 billion deficit, newly-inaugurated Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced plans to cut his own salary. The Governor, Lieutenant-Governor Robert Duffy, and their aides will all return five percent of their salaries to the state.

Barbara Bartoletti, Legislative Director for the League of Women Voters of New York State, says the measure was delivered as a sign of good faith at the beginning of a gloomy budget process.

I think he's trying to set the tone with that salary reduction. Five per cent isn't huge but it does mean something. That's what people will be looking for. Where is that shared sacrifice that he's been talking about going to come from.