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Job layoffs happen due to various reasons. Mostly, the announcement of job cuts is due to the financial situation of a certain entity, particularly a company. Sometimes, large companies don’t lay off a part of their workforce, especially if they are doing well with its operations and are fairly competitive in terms of its economic standing. However, even with that status, job layoffs still occur even on big-named companies.
Such was the case of the tech giant Google and the beverage company Coca-Cola. Just this month alone, these two companies announced their plans to lay off numbers of workers in their business locations.
First off was the Google’s announcement of a job layoff this month, where the search engine company decided to let go of more than 1,200 of its workers in its Motorola Mobility Division. Said layoff represented 10 percent of the manpower of Motorola, which Google acquired May last year. Incidentally, Google had already announced a layoff prior to this one. It happened October last year when the company planned to lay off about 4,000 jobs on the same division.
The layoff was partly due to Motorola’s flailing performance in which it experienced financial losses. Because of this, Google saw it fit to lay off some of its workers, as well as initiate a reconstruction of the Motorola facility and outsource much of its business.
The next one was the planned shutdown of a Coca-Cola manufacturing plant in Sacramento, Calif., which would affect at least 60 of its employees. The plant operations will cease anytime soon, and the company is in a dilemma on how to deal with the workers who were projected to be let go of their jobs.
According to the company’s spokesperson, it has not decided yet whether they’ll provide severance packages to the laid off workers or have them reassigned to a different location. Although the company promised to compensate them after the plant closure, some members of its workforce were upset after learning of the plan.
Nevertheless, job layoffs, especially involving companies such as the two mentioned above, have to be depressing on the part of the workers. Meanwhile, Los Angeles employment lawyers believe that it is important for companies to allot a certain amount of budget to help aid laid off workers, and that non-compliance to such requirement is an employment violation.
Such was the case of the tech giant Google and the beverage company Coca-Cola. Just this month alone, these two companies announced their plans to lay off numbers of workers in their business locations.
First off was the Google’s announcement of a job layoff this month, where the search engine company decided to let go of more than 1,200 of its workers in its Motorola Mobility Division. Said layoff represented 10 percent of the manpower of Motorola, which Google acquired May last year. Incidentally, Google had already announced a layoff prior to this one. It happened October last year when the company planned to lay off about 4,000 jobs on the same division.
The layoff was partly due to Motorola’s flailing performance in which it experienced financial losses. Because of this, Google saw it fit to lay off some of its workers, as well as initiate a reconstruction of the Motorola facility and outsource much of its business.
The next one was the planned shutdown of a Coca-Cola manufacturing plant in Sacramento, Calif., which would affect at least 60 of its employees. The plant operations will cease anytime soon, and the company is in a dilemma on how to deal with the workers who were projected to be let go of their jobs.
According to the company’s spokesperson, it has not decided yet whether they’ll provide severance packages to the laid off workers or have them reassigned to a different location. Although the company promised to compensate them after the plant closure, some members of its workforce were upset after learning of the plan.
Nevertheless, job layoffs, especially involving companies such as the two mentioned above, have to be depressing on the part of the workers. Meanwhile, Los Angeles employment lawyers believe that it is important for companies to allot a certain amount of budget to help aid laid off workers, and that non-compliance to such requirement is an employment violation.
