The company also said it plans to leave 300 vacant jobs unfilled.

Other effects of the vacant jobs have been more subtle.

It started as a debate over a shortage of public health nurses and has widened to involve some 1,340 vacant jobs across county government.

Other layoffs have been averted, they said, by switching the workers to vacant jobs.

The 1989 budget contains 742 vacant jobs, a "phantom army," as Democratic legislators like to call it.

But some workers given pink slips might be able to shift into other vacant jobs, city officials said.

On December 2, 2008, the station laid-off three of its employees and cut two vacant jobs.

A number of men applied; a fellow named Barrows got the vacant job.

Legislators anxious to reduce spending have estimated the number of vacant jobs at 600 to more than 1,000.

Of course all methods should be supported, including official information about vacant jobs for seasonal or temporary workers.