gannett plans to layoff 3,000 by december.

You can't be fired FOR going on disability (or maternity). But you can be laid off in a right to work state during that period, but they'd probably have to honor the length of your FMLA period.

 

Now the blog is saying its Fort Myers closing, not Florida Today. I don't buy this for one second. Doesn't the South Group publisher work in Fort Myers? Can't be doing too bad if the publisher is a group leader.

 

What blog are you looking at?

http://gannettblog.blogspot.com/ says 80 are losing jobs at Fort Myers.

 

80 is an insane number for a paper that size. That's got to be about half the staff.

 

I feel like I'm in a bad invasion movie finding out about other cities being destroyed. this is insane.

 

In a sense, it is...

 

According to the numbers on the blog, it's 80 of 600 in Fort Myers. And 600 seems pretty high for a paper that size.

 

It was an anonymous comment in the comment section at Gannett Blog. And the 80 is paperwide, no just newsroom.

 

That's what I was getting ready to say. I've worked at a paper similar in size and I can't imagine losing 80 people, even if some of those aren't from the newsroom. That just blows my mind.

 

Maybe they haven't taken all the truck drivers and custodial people off the books yet like most papers.

 

That's about triple the size I would have guessed.

 

Detroit may be taking an unexpected hit this week.

Though Detroit News Agency isn't part of Gannett's Community Newspapers division and therefore isn't supposed to be affected in this round of cuts, I'm told that there was a re-org of some high-level management responsibilities yesterday.

Not sure how soon that would trickle down to cuts affecting the rank-and-file, but today's bloodletting across the rest of the chain was preceded a couple of months ago by a management shakeout at just about every community paper.