Universal Orlando lays off 70 employees
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Universal Orlando laid off approximately 70 employees Thursday, described as mostly management, as it and other resorts confront an increasingly dire economic outlook. Although the cuts amount to less than 1 percent of Universal's 13,000 local employees, they illustrate the company's growing concern about how theme-park attendance will fare this year as the sinking economy forces more cash-strapped consumers cut back on travel.
Read more from The Orlando Sentinel.
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Is this a new lay-off, or is this the culmination of that which we heard about some months ago where NBC-Universal was laying off some percentage of its workforce in positions roughly evenly spread across the enterprise?
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
It could be the same thing, because it sounds like the kind of numbers they were talking about when NBC-U was talking about the widespread cuts. (Or maybe it was GE overall?)
Jeff - Editor - CoasterBuzz.com - My Blog
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