Labor

The layoffs on Tuesday impact around 3.5 percent of Paramount’s global workforce, with the company having laid off around 2,000 US employees last year. In an internal memo seen by Deadline, Paramount execs said the cuts were driven by linear TV declines and broader economic concerns as the company focuses its efforts on streaming.

A notification on Washington’s statewide Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) layoff and closure database says the exact number is 305. According to a statement from Microsoft to GeekWire, that number is in addition to the 6,000 layoffs it announced last month,

Deadline reports on another round of mass layoffs at Disney, affecting hundreds of people. “...across divisions of Disney Entertainment, including marketing for both film and television as well as television publicity, casting and development,” as well as corporate financing.

Amazon engineers related their experience creating software to The New York Times:

Unionized workers at Politico allege the company violated its contract by using AI-generated content in a live blog — and are escalating their complaint to arbitration this summer. The union says the AI-generated summaries contained factual errors and language that’s off-limits for writers. The result of arbitration could set an important precedent for an industry that’s seen countless AI disputes in recent years.

Last week, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby partially blamed a “walkout” by air traffic controllers, along with equipment failures and understaffing, for massive delays and the cancellation of 35 daily round-trip flights.

Niantic Spatial announced the job cuts after it sold its gaming business to the Saudi Arabia-owned developer Scopely last month. But now we know how many employees may be affected, as a California WARN notice filed in March (but spotted now by Game Developer) indicates that Niantic will lay off 68 employees in the state on May 20th, 2025.

The Alphabet Workers Union’s announcement of the agreement follows an unfair labor practice charge it filed last year over Google restraining employees from discussing the trial. The company is due in court this month for the remedy phase, which could see it being forced to sell Chrome.

The announcement seems to be in response to a post from Hades II voice actor, Marin M. Miller who explained that they might have been recast because they are participating in the SAG-AFTRA interactive media agreement strike.

Including at least one person who was fired from the Small Business Administration twice before being told she was being accepted into the messily-arranged deferred resignation program, according to a report from The Washington Post.

Mass layoffs that happened Thursday night at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) are being paused, ABC News reports. The layoffs were part of Donald Trump’s gutting of key federal workforces — including the people maintaining the country’s nuclear stockpile.

Following up on an earlier report, Business Insider reports some Microsoft employees have been let go with letters citing “your job performance has not met minimum performance standards and expectations for your position,” and several reported receiving no severance.

404 Media has updates from unnamed employees on how the moderation changes have been received:

The UAW has asked federal labor regulators for a union election at a new Kentucky factory co-owned by Ford and South Korean battery company SK On.

ABC News reports the deal covers over 120,000 workers, but will cut over 35,000 jobs by 2030 via early retirement and buyouts. It also outlines production plans and locations for future vehicles, including an electric Golf, Q4 E-tron, ID.7, and another EV based on the SSP platform.

A new Wall Street Journal story detailing two nonprofits’ discovery of hundreds of iOS apps inappropriately rated for kids identifies a possible reason so many apps that seem to clearly defy Apple’s guidelines end up in its App Store anyway: