Relief, Rebuilding and RIFs

The Armed Forces Retirement Home in Gulfport, Miss., delivered some bad news Wednesday: 130 employees will lose their jobs in a reduction-in-force effective Feb. 18, 2006. The problem is that the hundreds of residents who lived at the facility were relocated to Washington, D.C., after Hurricane Katrina hit, reports WLOX TV. Officials say the Gulfport facility eventually will reopen, and RIFed employees will have first crack at their old jobs.