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IBM Okays Vermont's Disclosure Of Layoff Numbers

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IBM has informed the Vermont Department of Labor that it will not object to the department’s disclosure of the total number of employees impacted by recent layoffs.

After Governor Peter Shumlin and Vermont Labor Commissioner Annie Noonan urged IBM to grant permission by noon Thursday, Noonan says IBM has complied.

She says IBM’s senior counsel at the company’s headquarters in Armonk, in Westchester County, advised her department that, recognizing that the Labor Department has agreed that employee-identifying information must be exempt from public disclosure, IBM will not object to the public disclosure of the total number of impacted employees - 419. IBM does not make layoff numbers public. It reports them to the state, but had contended to Vermont officials the number is commercially sensitive and exempt from disclosure under the law. IBM officials announced in April a global restructuring, and pink slips went out in June, including to 697 employees in Dutchess County, at IBM facilities in East Fishkill and Poughkeepsie.

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