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Frankfurt Book Fair Plans Restructuring and Layoffs, Further “Modernization”

November 13, 2020
By Michael Cader

The Frankfurt Book Fair, which employees a robust staff year-round, announced “a restructuring program for its operating company” that will include both layoffs and organizational changes. “It is already clear that the existing structures are to be streamlined, for example by merging departments. This will also involve job cuts,” they said in a statement. The…

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Macmillan Postpones Office Reopening Until July

November 10, 2020
By Michael Cader

Macmillan Publishers said it will not officially reopen their New York City trade publishing offices before July 6, 2021. (Previously, the date was January 11). In the meantime, the company has expanded a voluntary program that allows employees limited access to their work space. They underscore that the program “follows requirements from the CDC and…

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Amazon Delivers…Coronavirus

October 2, 2020
By Michael Cader

Under the distracting title of Update On Covid-19 Testing, Amazon published a blog post that reveals their analysis of data on the prevalence of the disease among their front-line employees. Across almost 1.4 million Amazon and Whole Foods Market front-line employees, just under 20,000 people tested positive or were presumed positive. They say they “hope…

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Corporate: Early Retirement At HMH, and Judge Throws Out Parneros’s Defamation Claim Against BN

September 8, 2020
By Sara Grace

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced that 166 employees — five percent of the company’s workforce — opted to participate in a voluntary early retirement incentive program, which had first been announced August 6 in the company’s quarterly report. The program was offered to all US-based employees who are at least 55 years old and have at…

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People, Etc.

May 15, 2020
By Erin Somers

At Macmillan Children’s, Mekisha Telfer has been promoted to senior associate editor at Roaring Brook Press; Luisa Beguiristain to assistant editor at Roaring Brook Press; Melissa Warten to associate editor at Farrar, Straus Children’s;  Elizabeth Lee to assistant editor at Farrar, Straus Children’s; and Robyn Chapman to editor at First Second. CEO of Taylor & Francis Annie…

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Two Longtime Barnes & Noble Warehouse Employees Have Died of Covid-19

May 8, 2020
By Michael Cader

Longtime employees at Barnes & Noble’s New Jersey distribution center Felix Ramirez and Alberto Joyasaca have died from complications related to Covid-19. Ramirez died April 13, according to co-workers, and Joyasaca died on May 4. BN spokesperson Alex Ortolani confirmed Ramirez’s death to NJ.com, saying the company was “deeply saddened by his passing.” Ortolani reports…

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