11.   The Atlanta airline is expected to outline an emergency cost-cutting plan including furloughs, voluntary leaves and early retirement incentives.

12.   The cutbacks will involve early retirement incentives, buyouts and layoffs, the company said.

13.   The UAW had no comment, but has resisted retirement incentives in the past, fearing that workers will spend them instead of saving.

14.   UMass also offered its own retirement incentive, under which takers have until next June to depart.

15.   Alitalia is expected to resume offering early retirement incentives and adopting hiring freezes.

16.   Ford Motor Co. says it plans to reduce the size of its U.S. work force slightly through attrition, slower hiring and a limited number of early retirement incentives.

17.   Union officials told the Star they are hopeful that a combination of measures including early retirement incentives and buyouts could reduce the number of layoffs significantly.

18.   Unisys, which is based in the Philadelphia suburb of Blue Bell, said it would use early retirement incentives in reducing its employee count.

19.   Workers Force leader Marc Blondel said as part of the deal, management agreed to grant retirement incentives to longtime employees and replace them with younger hires.