THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, July 17, 1994 TAG: 9407150220
SECTION: PORTSMOUTH CURRENTS PAGE: 06 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Editorial
LENGTH: Short : 33 lines
City Council revisited the recent layoffs at a Tuesday work session, when city staff accentuated the positive.
For example, eight more of the 35 will be able to retire by December. Another 15 have applied for one of more than 100 other city jobs, some of them advertised the day after the layoffs, and three already have been offered new positions.
Personnel Director Charlotte Fletcher gave this glowing report and even went on to say that some laid-off city employees are seeing their jobless state as an ``opportunity'' to go back to school or change directions in life.
All of the concern and activity on behalf of the laid-off workers is no more than they should expect.
The nagging question: Why wasn't all of this done before the layoffs? Why put people through the agonies of losing a job when such alternatives were available?
KEYWORDS: PORTSMOUTH CITY COUNCIL
PORTSMOUTH CITY EMPLOYEES LAY OFFS
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