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Large-scale
layoffs fall in Ohio; lowest in U.S. since ’07
Wednesday,
June 20, 2012
Mass
layoffs affected fewer Ohio workers in May compared with a year ago,
according
to federal data released this week.
Last month,
Ohio employers laid off at least 50 workers 37 times, resulting in
3,401
initial claims for unemployment insurance. That’s down from May 2011,
when
employers laid off workers en masse 63 times, sending 5,170 workers to
the
unemployment line, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
said.
The
department defines a mass layoff event as 50 or more initial claims for
unemployment insurance filed against an employer during a five-week
period.
Ohio’s
drop-off in mass layoffs outperformed regional and national totals. In
the
12-state Midwest region, the number of workers filing first-time claims
for
unemployment insurance increased from 26,017 to 26,349 despite a
decrease in
the number of mass layoff events.
Throughout
the U.S., 109,259 workers filed such claims last month, down from
119,911 a
year ago. About 19 percent of those claims came in the manufacturing
sector.
Nationwide mass layoffs have fallen to
their lowest level since 2007 through the first five months of the
year, the
bureau said.
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