Employment News
20% Cut in L.A. Library Jobs
By daniel | Dated: 03-01-2010
For now, Los Angeles libraries have cut Friday morning hours in 72 branch locations in order to save money. By June, the hours will be cut again, and the reduction in staff from a combination of layoffs and retirements is estimated to be around 20%.City-wide, as many as 4,000 layoffs are planned, the library impact being merely one several impacted areas.
$700 million over 16 months is the budget gap that L.A. is currently faced with, and it’s projected to widen to $1 billion by 2013.
“Libraries are going to be closed,” predicts Cheryl Parisi, chair of the Coalition of Los Angeles City Unions. The coalition is an umbrella group for 22,000 employees spanning from librarians to street maintenance workers. “They are going to cut maintenance for parks. You are not going to have crews out filing potholes.”
Pension contributions are expected to increase dramatically, a key repercussion of market losses from the recession.
Career Connect (From our other career blogs):
- Employment News (Sponsored by EmploymentSpectator)
- Following Your Passion-Literally! (Sponsored by iamnotastalker.com)
- Job Search Advice from the CEO of TravelingCrossing (Sponsored by aharrisonbarnes.com)
- Layoff News (Sponsored by LayOffWatch)
Testimonial of the Week
I was very pleased with the TravelingCrossing. I found a great position within a short amount of time … I definitely recommend this to anyone looking for a better opportunity.
- Jose M Santa Cruz, CA
Sign Up now
Only TravelingCrossing consolidates every job it can find in the domain and puts all of the job listings it locates in one place.
- We have more jobs than any other job board.
- We list jobs you will not find elsewhere that are hidden in small regional publications and employer websites
- We collect jobs from more than 4,429,376 websites and post them on our site.
- We are private, and therefore far fewer people are applying for the jobs on our site than are applying for those on public job boards.
