buyouts

Today: Toyota and Honda show off smaller, sporty hybrid cars. AOL says it will lay off as many as 1,200 workers after 1,000 agree to buyouts.

NEW YORK - AOL LLC, an Internet company struggling to adapt to an advertising-driven economy, is looking to shed more than a third of its work force as it prepares to spin off from Time Warner Inc.

Canada's largest circulation daily has launched what its publisher said will likely be the biggest restructuring in the newspaper's history by offering voluntary buyouts to employees in all divisions of the company.

The Postal Service is offering $15,000 buyouts to employees in an effort to cut costs.

The Kansas City Star is ordering one-week unpaid furloughs for most of its employees and offering voluntary buyouts as it continues to deal with falling revenues.

Ford Motor Co. said Friday it is giving its hourly workers five more weeks to decide whether they want to accept the company's buyout and early retirement offers.

Ford Motor Company also told employee it will offer another round of buyouts and early retirements to all of its hourly workers.

Probably the number one comment I get about people who are looking to find reasons to avoid all the business issues of photography - that is - improving their bad practices for good ones - is that their current clients have come to accept things like buyouts/all-rights/work-for-hire; no shipping charges;