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| Mass Layoff Events, Separations, and
Initial Claims for Unemployment Insurance by Primary Reason for Separation, Maine, 2004 and 2003 |
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| Source: Maine Department
of Labor, Division of labor Market Information Services, in cooperation with
the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. |
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| Primary Reason for Separation | 2004 | 2003 | |||||||||||||||
| Establishments with Layoffs |
Layoff Events1 |
Separations | Initial Claims |
Establishments with Layoffs |
Layoff Events1 |
Separations | Initial Claims |
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| Total2 | 73 | 86 | 10,077 | 7,056 | 95 | 122 | 11,654 | 8,845 | |||||||||
| Contract Completed | 6 | 12 | 1,700 | 1,326 | 3 | 5 | 450 | 435 | |||||||||
| Product Line Discontinued | 3 | 3 | 135 | 140 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Reorganization within the Company | 6 | 6 | 467 | 363 | 5 | 8 | 775 | 481 | |||||||||
| Seasonal | 37 | 42 | 6,272 | 3,661 | 52 | 62 | 5,982 | 4,416 | |||||||||
| Slack Work | 8 | 9 | 298 | 479 | 21 | 22 | 1,458 | 1,310 | |||||||||
| Other3 | 13 | 14 | 1,205 | 1,087 | 18 | 25 | 2,989 | 2,203 | |||||||||
| 1A mass layoff event occurs when 20 or more workers are laid off for more than 30 days. | |||||||||||||||||
| 2Establishments with layoffs by reason will not add to total due to some companies having several events with different reasons. | |||||||||||||||||
| 3Other reasons include bankruptcy, business ownership change, contract cancellation, domestic relocation, import competition, model changeover, overseas relocation, plant or machine repair, and weather related. | |||||||||||||||||