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| Mass Layoff Events, Separations, and Initial Claims for Unemployment Insurance by Primary Reason for Layoff, Maine, 2006 and 2005 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2006 | 2005 | ||||||||||||||||
Primary Reason for Separation |
Establish-ments
with layoffs2 |
Layoff Events1 |
Separations |
Initial Claims |
Establish-ments
with layoffs2 |
Layoff Events1 |
Separations |
Initial Claims |
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| Total2 | 86 | 103 | 9,892 | 6,447 | 105 | 124 | 13,498 | 7,015 | |||||||||
| Business Ownership Change | 3 | 3 | 480 | 255 | 3 | 3 | 151 | 141 | |||||||||
| Contract Completed | 6 | 12 | 705 | 699 | 4 | 8 | 920 | 357 | |||||||||
| Financial Difficulty | 3 | 3 | 446 | 362 | 6 | 6 | 525 | 232 | |||||||||
| Reorganization within the Company | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 685 | 446 | |||||||||
| Seasonal | 51 | 59 | 7,074 | 3,827 | 66 | 77 | 9,940 | 4,332 | |||||||||
| Slack Work | 17 | 20 | 951 | 1,087 | 12 | 16 | 897 | 1,209 | |||||||||
| Other3 | 6 | 6 | 236 | 217 | 9 | 9 | 380 | 298 | |||||||||
| 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 the Industry total due to some companies having several events with different reasons. | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 Other includes Bankruptcy, Import Competition, Natural Disaster, Contract cancellation, Environment Related, Material Shortage and Reason not Known. | |||||||||||||||||
| Source: Maine Department of Labor, Division of Labor Market Information Services, in cooperation with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. | |||||||||||||||||