The LA City Council approved a revised budget to close its deficit, which also reduced layoffs from roughly 1,600 to about 600.

RIF plans have been frozen for two weeks, but federal court suggests they are unconstitutional and implementation will remain prohibited indefinitely.

The number of Americans filing unemployment claims last week fell slightly as businesses continue to retain employees despite growing economic uncertainty over U.S. trade policy.

Tax experts, IRS employees and former Treasury Department officials are all warning that the US government could lose hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue because of the Trump administration’s staffing cuts to the tax agency,

Education is unable to carry out its statutory responsibilities and the Trump administration must receive congressional approval before dismantling the department, judge rules.

A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024 and 2025.

Testifying to a Senate committee, National Nuclear Security Administration leaders acknowledged staffing woes after DOGE-led reductions.

Ventura Unified, Oxnard Union and the Ventura County Office of Education each approved dozens of final layoff notices, though numbers could decrease.

You may believe that retiring would spare someone else from being laid off, but in reality, it’s hard to know whether your departure would do so. Work-force reductions are typically complex, and the ripple effects of one departure are difficult to predict.

Meta (META) , which owns Facebook and Instagram, kicked off 2025 on a harsh note when it decided to give thousands of employees the boot. In January, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company’s workforce would be reduced by 5%,