{"id":4739,"date":"2012-02-09T17:25:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T00:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=4739"},"modified":"2012-02-09T17:36:39","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T00:36:39","slug":"idaho-national-lab-announces-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/02\/09\/idaho-national-lab-announces-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho National Lab Announces Layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4741\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"INL's Materials and Fuels Complex in southeastern Idaho.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/IdahoNationalLab_INL.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4741\" title=\"IdahoNationalLab_INL\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/IdahoNationalLab_INL-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/IdahoNationalLab_INL-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/IdahoNationalLab_INL-620x411.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/IdahoNationalLab_INL-220x146.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/IdahoNationalLab_INL.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Idaho National Laboratory<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">INL&#39;s Materials and Fuels Complex in southeastern Idaho.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Officials with the Idaho National Laboratory say they need to cut 185 employees to reduce costs.\u00a0 <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/m.apnews.com\/ap\/db_15980\/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=EmhM0tEQ\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> employees at the lab were informed of the job cuts today.\u00a0 Lab officials will ask for voluntary layoffs before deciding how many pink slips to hand out.<\/p>\n<p>Human Resources Director Mark Holubar <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boisestatepublicradio.org\/2012\/02\/09\/inl-plans-more-lays-off\/\" target=\"_blank\">tells<\/a> <em>Boise State Public Radio <\/em>the layoff process will continue until the end of March. <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is obviously a very difficult situation for us, and any time that we are talking about the possibility of eliminating somebody\u2019s job it\u2019s not an easy thing,&#8221; Holubar says.<\/p>\n<p>The Idaho National Laboratory cut about 100 jobs last year.\u00a0 INL, which is operated by Battelle Energy Alliance, <a title=\"Where the Jobs Are (and Aren\u2019t) in\u00a0Idaho\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/01\/31\/where-the-jobs-are-and-arent-in-idaho\/\" target=\"_blank\">employs more than 4,000 people<\/a>.\u00a0 Thousands more on the site near Idaho Falls are employed by contractors and other agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials with the Idaho National Laboratory say they need to cut 185 employees to reduce costs.\u00a0 The Associated Press reports employees at the lab were informed of the job cuts today.\u00a0 Lab officials will ask for voluntary layoffs before deciding how many pink slips to hand out. Human Resources Director Mark Holubar tells Boise State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":4741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,13],"tags":[133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4746,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739\/revisions\/4746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}