{"id":4622,"date":"2009-02-19T15:10:06","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T23:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4622"},"modified":"2009-02-19T15:12:51","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T23:12:51","slug":"gia-cuts-more-than-diamonds-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4622","title":{"rendered":"GIA Cuts More Than Diamonds. . . Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/gia-logo-tm.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/gia-logo-tm.jpg','popup','width=200,height=68,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/gia-logo-tm-tm.jpg\" height=\"68\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Gia-Logo-Tm\" \/><\/a><strong>The Gemological Institute of America<\/strong> announced today that it is cutting 71 employees from their Carlsbadistan office in a nine percent cut across the company according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljewelernetwork.com\/njn\/content_display\/colored-stones\/color-market-reports\/e3i8f6bf92e29273158364e07c07c8f1fa8\" target=\"_blank\">National Jeweler<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A GIA spokeswoman said the cuts, announced on Wednesday, would impact 103 GIA employees in the United States, 71 at the company&#8217;s Carlsbad, Calif., headquarters and 32 at its New York offices. . . . The GIA employs a total of 1,143 workers in the United States. . . . In addition, all salaried employees will take a pay cut of up to 20 percent, while hourly employees will lose workdays. . . .The company&#8217;s pension plan is frozen, the spokeswoman said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This comes after the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4009\" target=\"_blank\">cutting 11 percent of their staff in December<\/a><\/strong>. Pretty soon there will be nothing left to cut.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljewelernetwork.com\/njn\/content_display\/colored-stones\/color-market-reports\/e3i8f6bf92e29273158364e07c07c8f1fa8\" target=\"_blank\">National Jeweler<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gemological Institute of America announced today that it is cutting 71 employees from their Carlsbadistan office in a nine percent cut across the company according to a story on National Jeweler. A GIA spokeswoman said the cuts, announced on Wednesday, would impact 103 GIA employees in the United States, 71 at the company&#8217;s Carlsbad, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4625,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622\/revisions\/4625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}