#employeerelations

The California Academy of Sciences announced 53 worker layoffs last week. CalAcademy Workers United, representing staff, rejects these job cuts. Union leaders claim some layoffs violate their existing contract. Many affected union members are continuing to report to work. Negotiations between the union and management have begun.

San Francisco, California

https://missionlocal.org/2026/05/union-rejects-cal-academy-layoffs/

I’m going to be watching the managers like crazy today. It will be really obvious if they have an HR coaching on how to fire people.

Anyone know how long the HR meeting is?My manager doesn’t really have meetings today

I had 15 years with the company but my department decided to lay me off instead someone that’s been there 2 years. That’s not fair at all. I trained people, was always on time, worked weekends and overtime while being salaried, all that dedication and this is the thanks I get. I’m very hurt and disappointed in UHC. They have no loyalty at all! I will never work for them again good riddance!!

Every day a new low with this place.

Cost of living is skyrocketing, why can’t HR see this?

Maurice and is cronies no longer care about tenured, experienced employees. From now on there will be no promotional opportunities for supervisors and above of they are not located at a hub site. Even if you have worked for the company for over 20 years, if you live in Marion, you're sc--wed. No promotion for you. Apparently, only employees in hub locations are now qualified to promote. I'm deeply saddened that HCSC has become such a cr-ppy employer and thinks so little of those of us who have dedicated so many years to ensuring the success of this company.

It says over the next 2 years but still. How are you supposed to have any job security like this? I'd been expecting it given how strongly they've recently been pushing metrics leadership can see. And still I'm frustrated and annoyed. It's almost worse that it's "over the next two years" because now I have to start applying elsewhere because I just don't even know if I'm safe or not.

How much of a corporate bootlicker do you have to be to actually join the bank’s PAC? This place would drop you in a second without thinking twice, why waste even a second of your life on it?

I know it is normal that managers cut off communication with their laid off reportees. My manager was in touch with me on a personal note all of last week after I was impacted, but is now MIA; won’t respond to my calls or texts. This is my first time being laid off (my postpartum brain isn’t helping me think straight). My manager was once my coworker at Nike and we always had a good relationship outside the office, so I am trying to understand if there has been an explicit directive by Nike leadership to not be in touch with laid off employees.

As a people manager, I can confirm I received list of associates I'll have to let go.

My manager probably received the same.

We all have mandatory trainings tomorrow to break the news in stages on Thursday.

Just like level 4-7 associates, level 8 and above won't know their date until Thursday.

I might well be outside the door after breaking news to two of my exceptional performers on Thursday.

So it is happening.

HCA Healthcare’s offshoring of American IT jobs to India is a gut-wrenching betrayal that should outrage every American who values fairness, loyalty, and the integrity of our healthcare system. When CTO Sai Adivi announced the end of many American IT careers in an impromptu, secretive, BCC’d Webex call, citing a "successful pilot" and the move to "Phase 2" while referencing other Fortune 100 companies, the message was already cold. But the kn--e twists deeper with the detailed plans for affected employees to spend their final months in left-seat/right-seat training and job shadowing, meticulously documenting every skill and technology in SOPs so their Hyderabad replacements can take over. All of this while managers in large group chats including the affected employees post cheerful "happy work anniversary" congratulations.
This is not business as usual. This is a company founded by American physicians on American soil, built by generations of dedicated American workers, and kept afloat by nearly 47 million mostly American patient encounters every year, with tens of billions pouring in from American taxpayers through Medicare and Medicaid. HCA’s stock languished in the low-to-mid $20s until the 2012 Obamacare ruling dramatically boosted its insured-patient volume and share price. Yet today, at well over $400 per share, HCA looks its own people in the eye and offers veteran employees with 20+ years of service a severance package well below Fortune 100 averages, saying their knowledge, sacrifice, and loyalty are worth less than the savings from shipping jobs to Hyderabad.

The "train your replacement" mandate is cruel and humiliating. Forcing dedicated Americans to dismantle their own careers, hand over hard-earned institutional knowledge that keeps hospitals safe and patients protected, and then sit idle answering questions until the India team can stand alone, while the company pretends everything is normal and business as usual, is an insult that adds financial hardship, emotional devastation, and profound disrespect on top of job loss. It risks patient-care disruptions, erodes decades of U.S.-based expertise, and treats people who helped build HCA into a powerhouse as disposable.

HCA’s founders spoke of putting patients first. Today’s leadership, under the continuing influence of the Frist family, who still hold massive ownership and board power, has utterly abandoned that vision. Patients, American workers, and the taxpayers who subsidize this empire are no longer the priority. Cheap foreign labor and swollen profits are piloting the ship.

Politicians who accept campaign support, lobbying influence, or oversee the massive Medicare and Medicaid dollars flowing to HCA must be held accountable. Demand they investigate these practices, protect American jobs in critical healthcare infrastructure, and ensure taxpayer money doesn’t fund the offshoring of American livelihoods.
Shareholders and the board (including Frist family representatives) should also face pressure to replace leadership that has so clearly failed the original intent of the founders. The mission was patient care and human life, not maximizing margins by discarding the American workers who made it all possible.

American patients deserve a healthcare giant that actually protects their data and delivers reliable care with professionals who understand them. American workers deserve employers who honor their service instead of treating them as disposable after decades on the job, especially while forcing them to train their own replacements and pretending everything is normal in the company chat.

HCA should be beyond ashamed. It should immediately halt this offshoring, retain and invest in its American workforce, and rediscover the patient-first values its founders claimed to champion. Anything less confirms that for this company, loyalty, country, basic human decency, and the American dream mean absolutely nothing when profits are on the line.

This cannot stand. Not for HCA Healthcare. Not for any other American company that relies on the American taxpayer for its survival.

This post truly deserved a thread of its own so it could be seen by more people. OP is @qm+1kqg2w845.

Hey all, here again. My long tenured role within capital one was not fairly compensated. Amidst my rapid, unjust departure, all I was provided for years of high level work was a cheap necklace from capital one. It’s actually broken and is being held together by my hope and dreams crushed by capital one and their toxic work environment. A cheap necklace is the embodiment of capital one as a company.

When Offshoring Raises Concerns About a Company’s U.S. Identity.
Employees can raise concerns about workforce shifts.
Relevant agencies include the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and U.S. Department of Labor (DOL).

Workers may also contact elected representatives to share concerns.

It’s 9600 now. Should 9400 including folks got laid off earlier this year.

Received an invite along with 4 other people to attend a meeting set up by HR in regards to VOE. Could this be a lay off?

Fayette County Public Schools has filed a notice. This notice concerns significant layoffs. These staffing decisions are reportedly difficult. They affect employees who care deeply about students. The district aims to align staffing with enrollment and program needs.

https://www.bizjournals.com/memphis/news/2026/05/04/fayette-county-schools-files-notice-layoffs-state.html

Interesting take from Mastroberti Consulting.

Unfortunately, it fails to mention the cultural rot within the company and lack of leadership.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nike-branding-leadership-ugcPost-7456417724651593728-rd-P?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAAPVOD8BUne0BRo2Kmc4QJlwiay3bWEfCtI

Arnold Palmer Regional Airport anticipates staff reductions. Executive Director Maurice Haas confirmed upcoming layoffs. The airport has 50 employees. Spirit Airlines recently canceled all flights and ceased operations there. Spirit was the airport's only commercial airline.

Latrobe, Pennsylvania

https://www.lightnercommunications.com/2026/05/05/layoffs-coming-at-arnold-palmer-regional-airport/

Any other pharmacists laid off on 4/30 from OptumRx? 15 years with the company. Anyone know numbers on all these layoffs ?

100% layoff scheduled for 6/1. So when it doesn’t happen, I’m going to post it’s because the rumor was leaked.

For those of us impacted by the greatest economy of all time and it’s not even close, here’s a LinkedIn template for your layoff with gratitude, grace and a pivot for what’s next!

Thrilled to share a growth opportunity I didn’t see coming.

I’ve been impacted by a recent layoff, and while this wasn’t the outcome I originally envisioned, I’m choosing to see it as a powerful reset and realignment moment.

Endless gratitude to Verizon for the journey, the incredible people, and the experiences that shaped me into the thought leader I am today. Nothing but appreciation as I close this chapter.

Now it’s time to lean into what’s next. The market is…dynamic, and this transition may come with trade-offs—whether that’s compensation, benefits, PTO, or starting fresh without tenure. But growth doesn’t happen in comfort zones.

I’m energized by the chance to rebuild, reimagine, and reinvent.

Because sometimes you don’t get what you wanted—you get what you need.

Open to opportunities. Ready to add value. Let’s connect!

Paterson Public Schools announced layoffs affecting 89 staffers. This total includes 39 teachers and other personnel. The district plans to cut over 200 total positions. Superintendent Dr. Laurie Newell attributed the budget deficit to rising costs. Hundreds of employees protested these projected cuts at a public hearing.

Paterson, New Jersey

https://longisland.news12.com/paterson-teachers-rally-against-projected-layoffs

Colorado State University announced plans to cut 178 full-time equivalent positions. Scores of colleagues were laid off across campus. State funding is now expected to decrease by under $1 million. Tuition revenue is projected to increase by $11.3 million. Faculty express low confidence and cite a lack of transparency.

Fort Collins, Colorado

https://collegian.com/articles/featured/2026/05/category-opinion-ltte-csu-administration-pushes-layoffs-despite-improved-budget-outlook/

Share the wealth.

Please share the country and the date you were layoff

I’m almost 100% positive our SM quit
Yesterday she was scheduled to return from vacation
No call/no show
Cell phone doesn’t ring and goes straight to voicemail
Texts not answered

Evangeline Lilly is blasting The Walt Disney Company over the layoffs at Marvel, which saw their workforce reduced by about 8%.

“Shame On You for turning your back on the people who built the power you are now using to throw them away,” Lilly captioned her Instagram post.

https://www.imdb.com/fr/news/ni65820902/

This shithole wouldn’t know talent if it punched them in the face. HR is a bunch of talentless Karens that only use is to be a meat shield between employees that do work, and our d-mb as fu-k C suite. Can’t wait to be out of this dysfunctional company

Anybody knows why Kara Long was shown the door? The announcement was pretty short. Left to pursue other opportunities, good luck. That’s it. No “retirement”, no flattery about her illustrious career.
I thought she was hired pretty recently.

For the past year I was cruising. Top ratings, visible work, direct revenue impact. I thought I was as safe as anyone could be. Then a scheduled call a couple of weeks ago happened and just like that, I was gone. So for anyone at PayPal who thinks their performance or relationships will protect them, think again. We're all just numbers. When someone up high decides your time is up, that's it.

Church & Dwight Co. filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification with the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry, informing the state it is laying off 195 employees at 5197 Commerce Drive in Jackson Township, York County.

https://www.pennlive.com/business/2026/05/company-sells-its-vitamin-business-resulting-in-layoffs-for-195-people-in-central-pa.html

Seeing article after article about how the latest layoffs will hurt morale at Meta is almost comical at this point. Morale hit rock bottom a long time ago, this just keeps digging.

Putting this here to see if anyone notices/cares to comment. I’m a Uniondale employee, one of about 200. Various business lines where most are vestiges of the old Dreyfus business. It’s clear the greater corporation wants to reduce headcount by forcing this move while offering no financial incentive. The commute from Long Island to NYC requires a train and subway. We’re looking at an estimated $5,000 cost for that, nothing less than 90 minutes, some will have over 2 hours one way. These are good dedicated employees who are being tossed out. Sure, the jobs aren’t eliminated (yet) or offshored (yet), and as someone here posted AI = All India. The transition will be difficult at best. We’ll see if it’s tolerable, but no one really seems to care. The announcement was heartless, an 8AM teams meeting where KB proved again to be soulless. He read a prepared statement that took all of 4 minutes. That’s it. Most groups didn’t even have senior management in house to… well to lead by example. But we will do the purposeless exercise of feedback, complete the peak on surveys, attend town halls in order to hear how fantastic everything is. Sad that a corporation of this magnitude won’t offer assistance to keep people happily employed. Oh wait, I just received an email from KB titled Uniondale Office - Helpful Resources. It contained two links. One for a commuter benefits program where BK hires a company to explain/manage your ability to have a maximum pretax (fed only) contribution of $340/month to cover commuting costs. Something but very very minor. And don’t forget that our taxes will now increase because NYC taxes will apply. Another 2-2 percent salary increase would go a long way in meeting the extra cost as well as supporting the idea that BNY cares about its employees. In reality leadership cares about the next McKinsey project (how’s P-M treating you?) and publicity for the CEO. All hail the smirking emperor who had a massive pay increase on the broken backs of his overworked employees. Let’s see how they react to people agreeing to move but resign at the last minute.

So Ya I know same question

When will we see it?

See question. Haven't heard anything from corporate regarding this. How to dispose of this computer

7-Eleven is implementing a cost-focused transformation. The company aims to streamline its organization. This process has led to difficult decisions and staff changes. Many employees have posted about their departures on LinkedIn. The goal is a stronger, more competitive business.

Irving, Texas

https://cspdailynews.com/company-news/workforce-changes-emerge-7-eleven