New York Daily News

Basically it gives employees designated for termination 90 days (I think) advance notice that their jobs will end on a specified date. Gives the designated employees time to get things in order and start making plans before the final hammer drops.

 

WARN notices are routine in California, especially for teachers. Just about everybody gets one near the end of the school year. Then they evaluate the enrollment for next term and establish how many teachers they need at a given school. Most of them are retained and they kind of shuffle the others around according to need. But if some have to be laid off, the WARN notifications are already done.
A few years ago, everybody was up in arms because all of these teachers were going to be laid off. Turned out, very few, if any, were laid off. It was just procedural.

 

Frederick, I think Gatehouse or DFM paper those managements have already reached the conclusion that there is no money to be made in digital only (and it is true damn few people have). When the cash flow goes negative they just plan to turn out the lights.

 

While I Don’t Relish Gutting Newspaper Payrolls, Unfortunately Sometimes It’s Necessary So That I Can Have Slightly More Money

 

Well, I'm not down with that piece at all -- even if it does raise a chuckle.

Does anyone else see anything wrong with using Justin Dearborn as the byline on that? There are a lot of people out there who are going to think the Tronc chairman actually wrote that. Very shaky.

 

I do wonder at some point if some creditors take a look at how some of these bottom feeders do business by loading up on debt, then leaving the creditors in the lurch, if they just decide that they won't extend credit to these companies.

 

I got the President I wanted, and the first 18 months have been fabulous, including the double negatives.

 

You also have Jenn Sterger as your avatar, and neither Jenn nor Fucko would stop to piss on you if you were on fire.