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More expected to flee New Jersey as baby boomers age

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More expected to flee New Jersey as baby boomers age

For Raymond Francisco, landing a job at the General Motors auto plant in Linden at 25 years old was like winning the lottery.

The New Brunswick native was a welder by trade, and enjoyed working hard for the good money he made at the plant. But when GM announced in 2002 it would close the factory — about six years after he started — Francisco decided he had to go where the jobs were.

That meant packing up his wife, two small children and moving to Lordstown, Ohio, where GM offered him another job at an assembly plant.

People are leaving New Jersey at a higher rate than 47 other states, just behind New York, which is No. 1, and Illinois, according to James Hughes, a demographer and dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. (Kachmar/Asbury Park Press)

https://www.app.com/story/news/local/2015/01/12/expected-flee-new-jersey-baby-boomers-age/21663035/

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Economist says ‘enormous’ N.J.-vs.-U.S. economic gap widening

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Economist says ‘enormous’ N.J.-vs.-U.S. economic gap widening

DECEMBER 17, 2014    LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2014, 1:21 AM
BY HUGH R. MORLEY
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD

* Gap between state, U.S. job gains widens, Rutgers economist says

New Jersey’s employment problems may be structural, because of factors that include the decline of key industries and the shift away from suburban corporate campuses, and are unlikely to dramatically improve even as the national economic picture brightens, Rutgers University economists said Tuesday.

The gap between the national job-creation performance and New Jersey’s is actually widening, as the national jobs market strengthens and New Jersey’s flounders, said Nancy Mantell, director of the Rutgers Economic Advisory Service, which compiles an economic forecast for the state.

Mantell’s comments, made in New Brunswick at the economic forum organized by R/ECON every six months, offered a dose of grim reality to the hopes that New Jersey’s economy would bounce back as the nation’s does.

The R/ECON predictions came as New Jersey prepares to release the employment figures for November on Thursday. The state lost 4,500 jobs in October, and the jobless rate of 6.6 percent remains above the national rate of 5.8 percent.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/business/slow-n-j-recovery-seen-1.1159092

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N.J.’s designated Ebola hospitals gain little in short term

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N.J.’s designated Ebola hospitals gain little in short term

OCTOBER 25, 2014, 11:36 PM    LAST UPDATED: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2014, 11:42 PM
BY MARY JO LAYTON AND LINDY WASHBURN
STAFF WRITERS | 
THE RECORD

Medical centers strive to be the region’s cancer expert, leading pediatric institution or renowned cardiac center.

But the state’s Ebola hospital?

Last week, Governor Christie designated Hackensack University Medical Center and two other New Jersey hospitals as the primary treatment centers for potential cases in New Jersey, a move to calm an increasingly anxious public after a few false alarms in the state and a confirmed case in New York City.

The hospitals, which include Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick and University Hospital in Newark, volunteered for the mission, state officials said.

The designation has the potential of burnishing the reputations of the three institutions, earning them medical accolades and research grants. But it also could create fear among other patients who might not want to be in the same facility as Ebola patients and result in declining traffic in emergency rooms and elective surgeries, experts say. And if there is a misstep with an Ebola patient, the hospital might not recover.

“In the short run, some people are going to think twice while the hysteria is still running,” said Donald Malafronte, a longtime New Jersey health consultant and president of the non-profit Urban Health Institute.

“But that hysteria will abate, and it will leave three hospitals with reputations for highly specialized infectious disease treatment,” Malafronte said. “When Ebola is a distant memory, the reputation of those three hospitals is enhanced.”

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/n-j-s-designated-ebola-hospitals-gain-little-in-short-term-1.1118141#sthash.FGN0louU.dpuf

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Hackensack among 3 NJ hospitals to be trained to receive Ebola patients

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Hackensack among 3 NJ hospitals to be trained to receive Ebola patients

OCTOBER 22, 2014, 6:03 PM    LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014, 6:50 AM
BY LINDY WASHBURN AND MELISSA HAYES
STAFF WRITERS |
THE RECORD

Governor Christie named three hospitals Wednesday – including Hackensack University Medical Center – to receive intensive training and support so they are prepared to treat any Ebola patients in New Jersey.

The three volunteered to be designated as the state’s treatment centers for patients with the highly contagious disease, the state Health Department said. Officials at the hospitals say they’ll learn from both the good and bad experiences of medical centers around the country that have treated Ebola patients.

Naming three hospitals out of the 72 in the state allows officials to concentrate resources, as nurses’ groups and a state lawmaker have recommended. The three — Hackensack, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick and Newark’s University Hospital – will have help from a group of experts from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scheduled to visit this week.

Ebola is most likely to enter New Jersey via a passenger arriving at the airport or at the port, officials believe, so hospitals located relatively nearby with the resources to handle the disease were chosen. University Hospital already has served as the receiving hospital for any passengers from Newark Liberty International Airport considered to have potential cases of Ebola or other communicable diseases, under an agreement with the CDC.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/hackensack-among-3-nj-hospitals-to-be-trained-to-receive-ebola-patients-1.1115108#sthash.nfbEnLOv.dpuf

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Ridgewood-based filmmakers appear in New Jersey Film Festival

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Ridgewood-based filmmakers appear in New Jersey Film Festival

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014    LAST UPDATED: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2014, 1:21 AM
BY JIM BECKERMAN
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD

FILM

WHAT: New Jersey Film Festival.

WHEN: Sept. 11 to Oct. 16. Programs begin at either 6 or 7 p.m., check listings. “She-Wolf” will be screened at 7 p.m. Oct. 5.

WHERE: Rutgers University (various locations), New Brunswick; 848-932-8482 or njfilmfest.com.

HOW MUCH: $10 general admission.

Ridgewood-based filmmakers Daniel Shapiro and Alex Topaller have made videos for Pharrell Williams and Michael Jackson. They’ve made commercials for Ford, Bloomberg and Beech-Nut.

Now they’re claiming the privilege familiar to all Christmas shoppers who’ve ever bought themselves a little present while in the store for others. “She Wolf,” their first narrative film, is a little something for themselves.

“We do a lot of music videos, we do a lot of commercials, and at some point we wanted to shoot something creative, something for ourselves,” says Shapiro, a Hawthorne resident, whose 18-minute film will be screened as part of the New Jersey Film Festival at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. The festival begins Sept. 11.

The 7 p.m. Oct. 5 screening of “She Wolf” will be at Voorhees Hall No. 105, 71 Hamilton St., New Brunswick: one of several locations where more than 30 films — shorts and features, from far-out experimental to near-mainstream — will be screened this fall. Shapiro and Topaller will both be present at the screening to answer questions.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/arts-and-entertainment/movies/ridgewood-filmmakers-pet-project-1.1083059#sthash.E3ZsmQZm.dpuf

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NJ Senate Candidate Jeff Bell to Keynote RealShare NEW JERSEY, State’s Premier Commercial Real Estate Conference, Sept. 11 in New Brunswick

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NJ Senate Candidate Jeff Bell to Keynote RealShare NEW JERSEY, State’s Premier Commercial Real Estate Conference, Sept. 11 in New Brunswick

NEW YORK, Aug. 18, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Bell will keynote RealShare NEW JERSEY, the annual conference for New Jersey’s commercial real estate movers and shakers, at New Brunswick’s Hyatt Regency on Sept. 11 from 7:45 a.m. until 12:25 p.m. The industry’s premier educational and networking conference is hosted by ALM’s Real Estate Media Group, publishers of GlobeSt.com and Real Estate Forum.

Mr. Bell will present his perspective on the Federal Reserve’s current policies, what he believes needs to be done to have a course correction in monetary policy, and how this produces prosperity on Main Street and impacts the commercial real estate industry.

“What’s hot, what’s new, and where to look for your next big deal, across all the property sectors, will be the focus of our 13th annual RealShare NEW JERSEY conference,” said Michael Desiato, vice president and group publisher of ALM’s Real Estate Media Group. “Besides the formal sessions, this is a venue where old business relationships are renewed and valuable new ones are forged.”

Conference panels include:

Town Hall: Economic Growth Update. Economic growth in the Garden State and the future of the commercial real estate market will be examined. Participants include: Meryl Gonchar, Esq.; Co-Chair, Redevelopment & Land Use Department; Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP. Tracye McDaniel; President and Chief Executive Officer; Choose: New Jersey Inc. Fred Schmidt; President & Chief Operating Officer; Coldwell Banker Commercial Affiliates.

New Development, Redevelopment and Repositioning: The Full Update. Topics include the redevelopment of suburban office campuses, repositioned retail, and new multifamily and industrial development. What factors are creating opportunities across the state? Participants include: Nicholas Racioppi, Jr.; Partner; Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti LLP. Carl Goldberg; Co-President; Roseland. Ronald Ladell; Senior Vice President, New Jersey; AvalonBay Communities, Inc. Constantino (Gus) T. Milano; Managing Director; Hartz Mountain Industries, Inc. Ken Sisk; National Client Manager; Partner Engineering & Science, Inc.

Transactions: Getting the Deals Done. Gain insight from New Jersey’s biggest players on the art of the deal. Participants include: Alex Cohen; CEO; Liberty SBF. Jose Cruz; Senior Managing Director; HFF. Nat Gambuzza; Vice President of Investments; Marcus & Millichap. David Simon; Executive Managing Director; Massey Knakal Realty Services.

Industrial Leaders in the Garden State. How have e-commerce, distribution and port-related activity caused increased user demand and how does this effect rental rates? Why has the overall industrial vacancy rate continued to improve for three consecutive years? Participants include: David B. Wolfe, Esq.; Partner; Skoloff & Wolfe, P.C. Marc Petrella; Senior Director; Cushman & Wakefield of NJ, Inc.

For more information or to register, go to https://www.globest.com/conferences/1_38/.

ALM is a global leader in specialized business news and information. Trusted reporting delivered through innovative technology is the hallmark of ALM’s award-winning media properties, which include Law.com (www.law.com), The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, The National Law Journal and The New York Law Journal. Headquartered in New York City with 16 offices worldwide, ALM brands have been serving their markets since 1843. For more information, visit www.alm.com.

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New Rutgers center honors Tyler Clementi

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New Rutgers center honors Tyler Clementi
Sunday, February 3, 2013
BY  PATRICIA ALEX
STAFF WRITER
The Record

The parents of Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers University freshman from Ridgewood whose suicide brought national attention to the issues of cyberbullying and gay youth, will dedicate an academic center in honor of their son at the school on Monday.

The center will draw from experts and scholars across the nation to create new programs and approaches to address issues involving young people, such as the often difficult transition to college, Rutgers officials said. The center will offer lectures, symposia and training on such topics as the use and misuse of new technologies and social media; suicide — particularly among lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual youth; and creating safe social environments, the school said.

The center will be housed in Rutgers’ School of Social Work on George Street in New Brunswick and will be a collaborative effort between the university and the Tyler Clementi Foundation, founded by his parents, Jane and Joseph Clementi. The center will be directed by members of the Rutgers faculty. “We’re taking advantage of a lot of existing resources,” said E.J. Miranda, a university spokesman.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/189549281_New_Rutgers_center_honors_Tyler_Clementi.html

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Happy New Year from John and all the members of NhN

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Happy New Year from John and all the members of NhN
John R. Fugazzie
December 30,2012
3:22 PM

I just want to take a short minute to wish everyone a Happy and Healthy New Year and to thank everyone who attends and helps others with our pay it forward job search group.

Our extensive list of friends of NhN who allow us to hold meetings in their libraries, the professional coaches who come speak pro-Bono, the businesses, organizations, and government officials who support us and the significant number of media who help us get the word out to others, and those who take the time to send job leads and support our program and membership.

I want to specially thank all the facilitators, co-facilitators, board members and special advisor to me that have helped this organization grow, create an impeccable reputation, and become national recognized.

I want to wish all of you and your family and friends a Happy New Year and hope for many many more of our members to create their success story to add to our ever growing list…which stands at 217 as of today.

This job search process is not easy but we hope that the support that all of our member groups provide will help each week be motivated to do the things you need to to to land.  Please spend time our our web site as it is loaded with helpful links and resources that keep being donated to us to help all of our members. make sure you click the more tab and visit each and every one of the tabs.

A very exciting moment will occur at 7pm on Wednesday night when we open our first NhN meeting location outside of NJ.
The opening of our Boston group will be a milestone for our organization’s national expansion. We have Abby Kohut to thank for finding these great volunteers and this great group of volunteers for establishing the relationship with BPL to allow us to have weekly meetings in their historic building…take a look at our page even if you are not from Boston.

https://www.neighbors-helping-neighbors.com/nhn-boston-ma.html

A few upcoming events i want to mention:

We will have a table at the Rutgers New Brunswick Main Campus Job Fair on Thursday Jan 3rd.
Here is their brochure. All members can attend, and we are looking for volunteers to help us staff the free NhN table we will have there. from 9:30- 3:30pm at the Student Center.

https://www.crmpubs.com/CFGsFinal/NJCCDG_Jan13_Online.pdf

2 Years and Counting …

I am working with other Volunteers on our 2nd annual anniversary seminar and will hope to have finalized the Venue and the Guest Speaker list by end of week.  We will be either at Bergen Community College or Bergen Academies.  As last year when we had 320 members we ended up with 200+ attending at Ridgewood Library, one year later we have 1100 members from 8 NJ counties and 217 success stories at our last count.  My plan is to have a series of speakers who can address job seekers interestes.

We will have well recognized professionals who are from each of the outreach areas we are working on to increase our membership and our networking opportunities. Government, Colleges, Business, Non Profit, Green and Sustainability, and a well traveled friend of Nhn will be presenting.

Please keep the day of Jan 25th free with thoughts of a 10-3 meeting seminar.  I would need some volunteers to help me with this as we are getting short in lead time.

While is it amazing to look back and see all the great things NhN has done, we really want to look forward to the things we will accomplish in the year and years to come.

Sincerely

John R. Fugazzie MBA
Founder – President – Group Leader
Neighbors-helping-Neighbors USA, Inc.
www.nhnusa.org

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List of New Jersey athletes who will compete in the 2012 Summer Olympics

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Following is a list of New Jersey athletes who will compete in the 2012 Summer Olympics:

• Jordan Burroughs: Wrestling, Sicklerville

• Julie Culley: Distance runner, Lebanon

• Rachael Dawson: Field hockey, Berlin

• Nick Delpopolo: Judo, Westfield

• Matt Emmons: Shooting, Browns Mills

• Steven Gluckstein: Gymnastics, Atlantic Highlands

• Tobin Heath: Soccer, Basking Ridge

• Connor Jaeger: Swimming, Fair Haven

• Asjha Jones: Basketball, Piscataway

• Cullen Jones: Swimming, New Brunswick

• Steve Kasprzyk: Rowing, Cinnaminson

• Maya Lawrence: Fencing, Teaneck

• Carli Lloyd: Soccer, Delran

• Christina McHale: Tennis, Englewood Cliffs

• Heather O’Reilly: Soccer, East Brunswick

• Jeff Porter: Track & field, Somerset

• Christie Rampone: Soccer, Point Pleasant

• Rebecca Soni: Swimming, Plainsboro

• Michelle Vittese: Field hockey, Cherry Hill

• Dagmara Wozniak: Fencing, Avenel

https://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20120727/NJSPORTS08/307270037/N-J-athletes-ready-Olympics-begin

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State’s sluggish recovery means more bad news for municipalities

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State’s sluggish recovery means more bad news for municipalities

New Jersey has fared worse than the country at large during the three-year economic recovery, a trend not expected to change anytime soon, making the future challenging for municipal governments.

That’s the message municipal officials heard yesterday at a forum sponsored by the New Jersey State League of Municipalities Educational Foundation. The half-day seminar, held at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Public Policy at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, was designed to help officials understand the economic landscape and consider options for dealing with slow growth.  (O’Dea, NJ Spotlight)

https://www.njspotlight.com/stories/12/0712/2347/

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>Sweeney touts Democrats new business-friendly attitude

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Sweeney touts Democrats new business-friendly attitude
New Jersey legislators are working to make the state more business friendly and create jobs, State Senate President Stephen M. Sweeney (D-Gloucester) said on Wednesday.
“We are headed in the right direction and it’s being done in a bipartisan effort,” Sweeney said. “We can’t afford to fight. Our unemployment rate is still above the national average. Our responsibility is to create opportunities.”
Sweeney was the keynote speaker at the New Jersey chapter of the NAIOP’s annual public policy symposium at the Hilton East Brunswick Hotel and Executive Meeting Center. About 140 people from the commercial real estate industry attended.  (Loyer, Gannett)
https://www.app.com/article/CN/20120307/NJNEWS/303070040/Sweeney-touts-New-Jersey-s-new-business-friendly-attitude
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>Time, or tolls? Doing the new math for New Jersey commuters

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Time, or tolls? Doing the new math for New Jersey commuters

It sounds like a problem from a physics exam: Two drivers left a parking lot in East Brunswick, N.J., at the same moment on Tuesday morning. One swallowed hard and took the New Jersey Turnpike, paying tolls that had jumped 53 percent on New Year’s Day. The other took Routes 1 and 1/9, toll free.

Which one arrived first at their destination, the Dunkin’ Donuts inside the Exxon station on Jersey Avenue, near the entrance to the Holland Tunnel in Jersey City?  (Barron, The New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/04/nyregion/time-or-tolls-the-new-math-for-new-jersey-commuters.html?_r=1&scp=16&sq=jersey&st=nyt
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>Newark Star-Ledger supports public worker job cuts

>Newark Star-Ledger supports public worker job cuts


For the first time since World War II, the U.S. economy gained no jobs for the month of August. Zero.
Here in New Jersey, since Gov. Christie took office, state agencies and local New Jersey governments have lost about 30,000 jobs. But the Newark Star-Ledger believes that readjustment had to happen.

The Ledger reports that between December 2000 and December 2007, New Jersey’s private sector added a mere 7,700 jobs, while the public sector gained 60,000.

Former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine began shrinking state government and benefits, and Christie signed reforms that contained salaries and benefits locally for most public employees.

The director of Rutgers Economic Advisery Service says the state’s economy is being held back by job losses in the public sector. According to NorthJersey.com, James Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy in New Brunswick, said state finances can’t improve until public sector job losses stop.  (Holt, New Jersey Newsroom)

https://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/state/nj-newspaper-supports-public-worker-job-cuts
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>TRENTON: Bill would block new referendum votes for a decade

>Bill would block new referendum votes for a decade

Reformists are crying foul over a bill that they say is aimed at stopping a group of New Brunswick activists from changing the way the city elects its council members. The bill, which has passed the senate and is set for an assembly vote on Monday, would force groups to wait a decade between tries to change the way municipal governments are elected. “That’s an abuse of the Legislature,” said the New Jersey Appleseed attorney Diana Jeffrey, who represents the New Brunswick Group, Empower Our Neighborhoods. “This is trying to make them stop two years from now, and make them wait ten years.” After months of wrangling, Empower Our Neighborhoods managed to get a question on the ballot in November that would expand the city council from five at-large members to nine members, of whom three would be at-large and six from wards. The question was defeated by just over 100 votes. The group plans to try again in two years. But if the bill is passed and signed into law, they will not be able to. Current law allows petitions to change the form of municipal governments to be brought every two, three or four years, depending on the type of government. The new law, sponsored by Assemblywoman Annette Quijano (D-Elizabeth), would only allow those petitions to be brought once every 10 years. An identical version of the bill sponsored by state Sen. Nicholas Scutari (D-Linden) passed the senate yesterday 21-15 in a vote that was largely along party lines. Among the yes votes was Loretta Weinberg (D-Teaneck), who has built a reformist reputation by Bergen County’s entrenched Democratic Party machinery. Weinberg said she intended to vote no but hit the wrong button because she w as distracted by a phone call. “I just looked up and pushed the yes button, and I didn’t realize it was that bill, which I had marked down on my list to vote no on. I made a mistake and didn’t know it until the board was closed,” said Weinberg, adding that she was lobbying her assembly colleagues to vote no on the bill on Monday. Jeffrey made the case in a letter to Assembly Speaker Joseph Roberts (D-Camden), writing that the bill would “take away citizens’ rights of self governance and self determination.” (Friedman, PolitickerNJ)

https://www.politickernj.com/matt-friedman/35908/bill-would-block-new-referendum-votes-decade

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>Gannett eliminates positions at New Jersey newspapers

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Gannett Co. Inc. has eliminated 206 positions at its six newspapers in New Jersey due to declining advertising revenues and the severe economic downturn afflicting the state and the nation.

The company began notifying the affected employees Tuesday at the Daily Record, the Asbury Park Press in Neptune, the Courier-Post in Cherry Hill, the Home News Tribune in East Brunswick, the Courier News in Bridgewater and the Daily Journal in Vineland.

“The economic downturn we are facing is severe and is expected to last throughout next year,” said Thomas M. Donovan, president and publisher of the Asbury Park Press and vice president of Gannett’s East Newspaper Group. “We have reduced expenses significantly throughout this year. But, unfortunately, as we looked ahead to economic forecasts for 2009, it became clear that we needed to make further reductions.”

Employees who were laid off received severance benefits commensurate with their years of service.

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https://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20081203/BUSINESS/812030380/1003