Wegmans #1 On List Of Companies That Never Lay Off Employees

They opened a new hospital last year and open between three and four outpatient facilities every year. If they have to eliminate a position they find that employee a new position.

In a tough economy St. Jude’s has cut back on spending and asked employees to find ways to cut expenses. Somehow the non-profit hospital that depends on donations finds a way to make it work.

Nugget Market is an 85-year old, family-owned chain of California grocery stores. And during all those years they’ve never laid-off an employee.

This company did everything it could including buying cheaper toilet paper for employee restrooms to avoid any layoffs and it worked. The company president even had a conference call with all his employees to guarantee there would be no lay offs.

The Rochester-based grocery chain came in fourth of Forbes Magazine’s best companies to work for and came in number one on a list of companies never to have had a lay off. When Wegman’s was forced to close a Rochester store last summer, all 250 employees were offered jobs at other stores in the Rochester area and every one of them accepted. Kevin Stickles, the vice-president of store operations and human resources says Wegman’s “is in the people business, but just happen to sell groceries.”