If only pink-slip parties were about lingerie. But the stylish get-togethers sprouting all over the city are focused, instead, on a much less sexy L-word: layoffs. The first such gatherings were ...

Where did that pink slip come from? No, not from your boss. Jesse Sheidlower, editor-at-large for the Oxford English Dictionary, speaks to Kai Ryssdal about the term's origins.

If only pink-slip parties were about lingerie. But the stylish get-togethers sprouting all over the city are focused, instead, on a much less sexy L-word: layoffs. The first such gatherings were ...

BEHIND PINK SLIP 2.0. Today’s story is the last in a series of articles over the past year in which the Mercury News has chronicled the lives of three laid-off Silicon Valley workers.

Pink slip parties are just one extension of social networking, a growing trend in professional circles. Whether online through career networking sites like LinkedIn or in person at networking ...

California school districts will send out as many as 26,000 pink slips today, reports the San Francisco Chronicle, prompting Pink-Slip Friday rallies and teacher protests across the state.

Bouncing Back From A Pink Slip. October 28, 2002. By Nancy Lloyd. Scot Diuguid, 59, an automotive training manager, says he was "blindsided" when he was laid off six months ago.

Underneath a 40-foot-tall woman's pink slip held aloft by a helium balloon, about 50 protesters gathered in front of the White House yesterday chanting "Pink Slip George Bush," calling for him to ...

Call it "pink slip stigma." When you don't have a job, it's harder to convince a new employer to give you one. And we all know the longer you're out of the game, the harder it gets. What we didn't ...

FEW rock guitarists have as distinctive a style and sound as former Pink Floyd axman David Gilmour. His heady, atmospheric space guitar and songwriting were at the heart of Pink Floyd’s great… ...

SANTA CLARA -- Another pink slip Friday in Silicon Valley. Google has sent out emails to its US-based employees informing them that they are among the 12,000 workers being paid off. CEO Sundar ...

With pink-slip taxes increasing, more small-business owners may be motivated to appeal claims for unemployment benefits filed by former employees who quit or were fired for cause—but such ...