Large-Scale Layoffs Slow

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Businesses may not have begun their hiring sprees yet, but they’ve cut back on the layoffs. A seasonally adjusted 153,127 workers were let go in 1,726 mass layoff events in December, the Labor Department said Wednesday. A mass layoff is an incident in which a single employer terminates 50 or more workers. Employers laid off 10,696 fewer workers in December than the previous month, resulting in the smallest number of mass layoffs – and people laid off as a result – …


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