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The United Nations Secretariat is preparing to cut its $3.7 billion budget by 20% and slash about 6,900 jobs, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters.
The drastic restructuring, revealed by Marco Rubio, the acting national security adviser, is likely to encourage the president’s preferred style of top-down decision-making in foreign affairs.
More layoffs rocked the Kennedy Center on Friday, as the arts institution’s staff continues to shrink following President Donald Trump’s takeover in mid-February.
A 15% cut to domestic staff will result in more than 2,000 employees losing their jobs — including around 700 at the department’s Foggy Bottom headquarters ...
Petroleum giant British Petroleum will cut 4,700 jobs this year in a cost cutting measure, the company announced Thursday. That amounts to about 5% of its total workforce.
The 1,500 research and development staff would need to apply for around 400 of the newly created positions in other offices, employees were told in an all-hands meeting at EPA on Friday.
According to the department, more than 1,300 positions will be cut as a result of this reduction in force. Roughly another 600 employees have accepted voluntary resignations or retired.
About 200 employees are being let go at Disney’s ABC News Group and Disney Entertainment Networks unit, people familiar with the matter said.
Kennedy said the aim was to cut redundancies in "administrative sections" by consolidating dozens of IT, HR and communications departments.
The Lake Oswego School District is warning employees that it will need to cut their jobs in order to plug an expected $12 million budget hole for the 2025-2026 school year.