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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
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.