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Applebees Hiring Freeze
I guess Applebees will be the next target of boycotts. LOL
Re: Applebees Hiring Freeze
Oh wow!! Scary! They are one of many!!
This doesn't surprise me.
Both Applebees and Papa John's are known to be horrible employers. They rank right up there with WalMart.
Just found this.....
As The Wall Street Journal aptly notes:
Several restaurants, hotels and retailers have started or are preparing to limit schedules of hourly workers to below 30 hours a week. That is the threshold at which large employers in 2014 would have to offer workers a minimum level of insurance or pay a penalty starting at $2,000 for each worker.
Pillar Hotels & Resorts this summer began to focus more on hiring part-time workers among its 5,500 employees, said Chief Executive Chris Russell. The company has 210 franchise hotels, under the Sheraton, Fairfield Inns, Hampton Inns and Holiday Inns brands.
"The tendency is to say, 'Let me fill this position with a 40-hour-a-week employee.' "Mr. Russell said. "I think we have to think differently."
New layoffs:
Westinghouse - 200
Research in Motion Ltd - 3,000
Lightyear Network Solutions - 15
Providence Journal - 23
Hawker Beechcraft - 410
Boeing 61,000...
CVPH Medical Center - 17
US Cellular - 980
Commerzbank - 6,000
Iberia - 7,000
Momentive Performance Materials - 150
Brake Parts - 75
Gameforge Berlin - 20
Vestas Wind Systems 1,700
Husqvarna - 390
Ericsson - 14,000
SRA International - 222
PerkinElmer - 75
Majestic Star Casino and Hotel - 80
Center for Hospice NY - 80
Lower Bucks Hospital - 500
Oce North America - 9
Corning United Blood Services Gulf - 150
Atlantic Lottery Corporation - 16
Welch Allyn - 10% of manufacturing work force
Dana Holding - 12% of work force
Stryker - approx 5%
Boston Scientific - Unspecific amount
Medtronic - 1,000
Smith & Nephew - 80
Abbott Labs - 550
Covidien - 600
Kinetic Concepts - 300
St. Jude - 300
Hill Rom - 200
Darden Restaurants - 3%
JANCOA - 350
Kroger - 30
ING - 2,350
Caterpillar - 4,000 (Decatur plant)
Alcatel-Lucent - 5,000
Umatilla Chemical 34
Rocketdyne...100
Pepsi - 8,700
Bank of America 30,000
Oh dear lord, vlagirl, why do you always post stories from the most biased, ridiculous websites ever?
Are you aware that this website once published a fake photo of Trayvon Martin and spread it around to make him look even more like a "hoodlum"? Complete trash.
cats - I'm not surprised at all. that's a major long list. All these companies and others all around the US were just sitting still until they knew which way the election was going to turn out. now that they know the candidate that won, they can go ahead and proceed. It's really sad. I'm very nervous about the economy and how it will effect me and DH's life.
I had mentioned in a thread below that apparently full time is 30 hours now and I had no idea. When did this go into affect. Full time could (hypothetically) go down to 20 hours and these companies would schedule below 20. Do people not get that companies need to survive and in order to survive they need to do what they gotta do.
I'm sorry, I don't have the time to research my sources to find out if they are un biased enough for you. Get over it ....would you prefer I only cite sources that are completely liberal/democratic based? this is getting ridic! And is wall street journal too biased as well??
I would be more impressed if the higher-ups in the companies would give up some of their salary and/or bonuses to pay for their businesses to survive, instead of blaming Obama.
hell no, you know as well as I do, they would never do that. sad but true
And I can't roll my eyes hard enough that Bank of America is getting rid of 30,000 jobs because of the ACA or Obama.
I will bet $10 they are getting rid of those jobs because they lost a whole lotta money in the housing catastrophe, which was caused, in party, by Bank Of America's greed.
So I have a really really really hard time feeling sorry for Bank of America. I feel sorry for the employees, not the company.
Obama? Wait a minute...it's Bush's fault!
Of course they wouldn't. They'd rather complain the Obama is the cause instead of recognizing that they should maybe give up their 3rd home and 15th car.
Bush created the ACA?
Source?
No, but at least find a source where the next story isn't blasting Obama for playing a round of golf.
Honestly though, you can link whatever you want here, I'll stop commenting on that, I'm just saying, it would help your credibility if it wasn't in your face biased.
I'm sure Applebees is going through with a hiring freeze, but exactly like CG said, these companies don't have money issues, they have greed issues. It's just easier to blame Obama.
Eta: that wasn't exactly what CG said, but I agree, the higher ups would rather lay people off than take a pay cut.
has anyone ever seen Company Men? I recommend it.
Everything is Bush's fault - dontcha know?
We will all need help. Just wait another year or two...
which is why i think the corporate world is such a joke now. Way back in the day you could get a job and know you would be there for the rest of your life. Not anymore, they don't give a crap about anyone because they know you are replaceable. Or that they could give your job to another employee there and not pay them more and save money with your salary.
We agree on something.
Hell must've frozen over.
Completed that for you.
It already did yesterday when my mom stopped watching FOX and is now watching CNN. I will never work back in the corp world unless absolutely necessary.
But you would never ever accept help, wouldn't want to be like those scum on food stamps, right?
Isn't that the status quo?
You call the other side crazy because they don't agree with you. Isn't that what kbmom said?
I think it's funny when cats is snarky. I think she needs help for other reasons.
LOL!
I honestly have a question on the bolded. can you supply a source that states the bolded above, nothing is free in life.
I agree with that too. Companies are all about beating ly sales and cutting whereever they can, even if it means eliminating great staff.
I don't understand your question, vl.
Is there a misplaced comma there or something?