The Kansas City Star will lay off 10 employees in its accounting division sometime in February and outsource the jobs, Marketing Director Tracy Hazen said Thursday. (MNI)

Harrah's Entertainment Inc. is closing its Memphis office and data center, leaving 250 employees without jobs. Another 50 will be moved to Harrah's Las Vegas headquarters in early 2009.

Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. is moving all corporate functions and its data center to Las Vegas eliminating 310 jobs in Memphis, the company announced late Wednesday in a news release.

Wendy’s/Arby’s Group Inc. is cutting about 134 jobs in Dublin, moving 120 of the positions to an expanded corporate support center in Atlanta. (WEN)

About 14 local Wendy's employees will lose their jobs early next year and another 120 positions at the Dublin headquarters will move to Atlanta in phases during 2009. In addition, 45 field-organization positions, none in central Ohio, will be eliminated. In September, Triarc Cos. Inc. which already owned Arby's, purchased Wendy's for $2.3 billion. The merged company, known as Wendy's/Arby's ...

Nine out of 10 workers who lost their jobs when MG Rover went into administration have found new ones, but many have had to accept lower wages, according to research out today. Though one in three of 6,300 workers made redundant in 2005 are now paid more than at the Longbridge plant, two in three are paid on average £5,640 less in real terms, the study, Life After Longbridge, reveals. Just ...

Lawson Software says it's cutting 200 jobs, or 5 percent of its worldwide work force, because of the global economic slowdown.

The Pittsburgh bank, which said last month it is buying Cleveland's National City Corp., told employees this week that management "should have an idea soon" about the number of jobs likely to eliminated because of overlap. National City has 29,800 employees; PNC has 28,000.