Company officials said some employees would be laid off in June and additional layoffs might follow.

But the company said today that because only one laptop model was directly affected by the move back to Japan, no additional layoffs were expected.

Local newspapers called the changes "bloodletting", and reported that additional layoffs were likely to come.

The alternative would be additional layoffs and an increase in property taxes.

But others say they expect the problems on Wall Street to get worse, with thousands of additional layoffs this year.

Ms. Smith said the additional layoffs would only hurt state residents.

In January 2009 the company announced 2,000 additional layoffs, bringing the total to 4,600.

Electric Boat said it hoped to avoid making additional layoffs until the second half of 1992.

The budget agreement reached yesterday includes no additional layoffs beyond the 10,000 already being carried out.

The Governor said at a news conference here that the number of additional layoffs would be about 6,000.