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

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Statewide, 135 businesses laid off 50 or more workersein May, nearly double the 74 businesses that conducteed such cuts the month before, the department’s Bureayu of Labor Statistics said in its monthly reporft on large-scale layoffs. Only 55 companiez enacted a mass layoff inMay 2008. In Texas, just undefr 13,000 workers filed for unemployment insurance as a resulgof mass-layoff actions in May, up from 7,000 in the report said. There were 5,888 such claims in May 2008. The figuresw are based on non-farm initial unemployment filings. both figures were up slightlg in Mayfrom April. The number of U.S.
workers let go in mass layoffx reached its highest level in 14 yearsx ofrecord keeping, officials said. Employersd took 2,933 mass-layoff actions in May, up from 2,71w2 in April. Those May mass layoffs nationwide resultedin 312,8890 new filings for unemployment, up from 271,2256 in April and 299,388 in The industries with the largest number of workers let go nationwide in May in mass-layofvf actions were temporary-help services (16,6588 workers), auto manufacturing (14,004) and food-servicwe contractors (11,216). in PDF format.