A Scottsdale school district administrator is appealing a decision to eliminate her position.

Rumors flew, security guards pawed through lunch bags and people inside started crossing days off their calendars. That’s what Karen Davis’s office was like before it closed last year.

Employees of Intel Corp., the East Valley’s largest private-sector employer, have reason to be nervous about losing their jobs. Media reports of upcoming layoffs intensified Friday with the latest reported figure reaching 20,000. Dean McCarron, principal analyst at Mercury Research in Cave Creek, has been expecting the layoffs.

The Scottsdale Unified School District will handdeliver official notices to 163 teachers today that they will not have jobs with the district next year, said district spokeswoman Carol Hughes.

At best it was disingenous of Scottsdale Unified School District officials to announce — four days after voters passed a budget override designed to save teachers’ jobs — that they were going to lay off teachers.

Chandler's proposed layoff plans would allow city employees whose positions are eliminated to "bump" other employees with lesser seniority out of a job.

Hundreds of state workers are facing unpaid furloughs and layoffs – potentially within a week – as agencies struggle to implement budget cuts approved last week, officials say.

Boeing Co. said Wednesday it will cut 10,000 jobs corporatewide this year as the aerospace company reported a big fourth-quarter loss.

A judge refused Monday to stop further state layoffs. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Andrew Klein said he heard nothing during the hearing to entitle the Service Employees International Union to an immediate restraining order against the state. In fact, the judge questioned arguments by union lawyers that the state was not following its own “reduction in force” rules.

A judge refused Monday to stop further state layoffs.

Chandler on Tuesday unveiled a list of tough economic measures that include an immediate hiring freeze and potential layoffs as city leaders look for ways to weather the deepening recession that's enveloped the country.

NEW YORK - Another book publisher is cutting jobs: Macmillan, where authors include Thomas Friedman, Rick Atkinson and Janet Evanovich, is eliminating 64 positions, just under 4 percent of its work force.

Global shipper DHL Express said Monday it may close a data information center in north Scottsdale as a result of the company’s decision to cease package-delivery operations in the United States.

Mesa began notifying several municipal employees this week that their positions would be terminated in January because of the city's economic crisis, a spokesman said Saturday.

A worsening budget situation may force Tempe, for the first time in its history, to lay off employees. Cutting 75 jobs by mid-2010 would bring the city’s books back into balance, City Manager Charlie Meyer said Friday.

A decision to lay off as many as 16 employees in Gilbert’s development services department was delayed Tuesday night after the Gilbert Town Council asked to see every other possible budget-cutting option.

With the Scottsdale economy and its tourism industry in their strongest positions since the last recession, why the Scottsdale Cultural Council is contemplating layoffs is more than a little mystifying.

NEW ORLEANS - Mayor Ray Nagin said Tuesday the city is laying off as many as 3,000 employees - or about half the city's workforce - because of the damage done to New Orleans' finances by Hurricane Katrina.

NEW ORLEANS - Mayor Ray Nagin said Tuesday the city is laying off as many as 3,000 employees - or about half the city's workforce - because of the damage done to New Orleans' finances by Hurricane Katrina.

The good news is Mesa probably will avoid layoffs. The bad news is the cash-strapped city is facing two more years of little or no economic growth.