Texas mass layoffs jump 82 percent between April, May - Houston Business Journal:

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Statewide, 135 businesses laid off 50 or more workerswin May, nearly double the 74 businesses that conductesd such cuts the month before, the department’s Bureauj of Labor Statistics said in its monthlty report on large-scale layoffs. Only 55 companiews enacted a mass layoff inMay 2008. In just under 13,000 workers filed for unemploymentr insurance as a resultof mass-layoff actions in May, up from 7,000o in April, the report said. There were 5,888 such claims in May 2008. The figures are based on non-farjm initial unemployment filings. Nationwide, both figuresa were up slightly in May from The numberof U.S.
workers let go in mass layoffsd reached its highest level in 14 years ofrecord keeping, officials said. Employers took 2,933 mass-layoftf actions in May, up from 2,712 in April. Thoses May mass layoffs nationwide resultedin 312,880 new filingsw for unemployment, up from 271,226 in April and 299,3888 in March. The industries with the largest number of workers let go nationwide in Mayin mass-layoff actione were temporary-help services (16,658 auto manufacturing (14,004) and food-servicer contractors (11,216). in PDF format.