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Posted on September 20th, 2009 in What the Weekly's Reading

Birmingham News parent company preparing massive layoffs, suit says

By Weekly Staff

In a wrongful termination lawsuit against Advance Publications and Mark Newhouse, the former publisher of the Mobile Press-Register says that the company is preparing massive layoffs. The cuts could come in February, when the company will end it’s job-for-life pledge. Advance is the parent company of the Birmingham News, where publisher Victor Hanson III “retired” last week. Plaintiff Howard Bronson says a new generation of Newhouses have put their livelihoods ahead of the well-being of the employees.

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