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With gas prices increasing, revenue declining and profit margins dwindling, many employers are taking a hard look at 2009 staffing. This may include combining positions, reducing staff by attrition, or laying workers off.

According to Sozeen Mondlin, associate general counsel with MITRE Corp, HR managers and employers should give careful consideration to choosing which employees to lay off.

“Given today’s economic climate, we all have to expect more activity in this area,” she said at the Association of Corporate Counsel annual conference in Seattle on October 19 to 21, 2008.

Mondlin said that employers are often sued by workers who (more…)