A friend at LexisNexis tells me of layoffs there, announced today. Can any victims (or survivors) give us a sense of the scope of this? #
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Police announced this afternoon that their investigation into what was initially believed to be a fatal fire on Rugby Avenue is now a homicide investigation. #
The Virginia Supreme Court has denied George Huguely’s appeal. His second-degree murder conviction will stand, WRIC reports. #
In a carefully worded story, and not citing specific sources, WTVR reports that forensic evidence belonging to Jesse Matthew Jr., the main suspect in the disappearance of Hannah Graham, matches forensic evidence collected during the investigation of Morgan Harrington’s 2009 murder. #
In the wake of Hannah Graham’s disappearance, and the evidence that came from private security footage, city officials are revisiting the question of installing security cameras on the downtown mall. #
Both Charlottesville Registrar Sheri Iachetta and former Electoral Board member Stephanie Commander have turned themselves in to the police on
foursix and four felony counts of embezzlement, respectively. #Ten years ago, the National Institutes of Health budget doubled and schools like the University of Virginia built massive new research facilities. A decade later, those buildings remain largely underutilized. NPR visits UVA in this story on the effect of federal binge and spurge spending in the sciences. #
In 2012, Council approved a new student housing complex on West Main—now some council members are questioning whether what they were shown matches what was built. #
The Architectural Review Board has approved a bike-themed mural on West Market, below the McGuffey Art Center, although at least one member expressed concerns that it might look like the bicyclists were riding away from Charlottesville’s downtown. #
City Police Chief Tim Longo is meeting with city leaders to work on protocols regarding the use of military surplus police weapons in Charlottesville. #
A 100-year-old Colonnades resident received military honors for her service in the WWII Women’s Army Corps #
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I am semi-reliably informed by coworkers that no regular employees got the axe today, but a number of temps and contractors, some of whom have been working with the company for nearly a decade, had their contracts terminated (presumably with extreme prejudice).
However, there are a number of layoffs of regular employees in the works that were announced last year.
Surprisingly, this has not stopped them from adding several new middle and upper management positions (although others, but not as many as have been added, have been cut).
I’m on the inside. They have been cherry-picking among departments to layoff the most highly compensated and most senior employees for more than 6months. The situation is critical. They are running low on operating cash due to over-extension from acquisitions the last year or so. Oddly they keep posting jobs but either leave them unfilled or hire and then fire or vice versa. The fired employee is normally someone much more highly compensated. Clearly they are restructuring but in a much more circumspect way. My guess is to keep a lid ok how bad things are in terms of their finacial outlook.
I was a highly compensated associate of ChoicePoint and was let go shortly after Lexis to control of ChoicePoint’s assets. Additionally, approximately 100 select X-ChoicePoint associates were let go also — mostly long-term highly compensated associates.