Layoffs

The proposal would allow all students currently declared as a physics major or minor an opportunity to complete the program. It would not eliminate all physics courses.

An estimated 800 employees were fired from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration last week.

The Hot 104.1 losses came the same week that parent company Audacy announced sweeping layoffs. The St. Louis station will begin simulcasting news and talk radio station KMOX.

Nearly 26,000 people work for the federal government in the St. Louis metropolitan area. If a portion lose their jobs, some economists said it will have overall trickle-down effects, while others believe it wouldn’t have broader implications.

It’s part of a 10% workforce reduction in the wake of a strike that halted production for seven weeks and an almost $6 billion third quarter loss.

The aerospace giant declined to say how many workers received layoff notices, but local union officials told the St. Louis Business Journal that 111 union workers will be affected.

The daily newspaper will be printed by a press in Columbia owned by a rival newspaper company. The move is the latest in a series of cost-saving measures that included newsroom layoffs last month.

Boeing has been losing money for over five years and is now dealing with a strike that has shut down factories in the Seattle area. Details about how this move might impact St. Louis jobs have yet to be announced.

The cost-saving measures enacted by the private Clayton-based university will reduce the next two fiscal year's budgets by more than $2 million combined.

NPR moved this week to cut 10% of its staff and stop production of a handful of podcasts, including Invisibilia, Louder Than a Riot and Rough Translation.