{"id":4105,"date":"2010-04-03T07:25:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T11:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4105"},"modified":"2010-04-03T07:25:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T11:25:19","slug":"usf1-officially-lays-off-all-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/usf1-officially-lays-off-all-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"USF1 officially lays off all staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">USF1, at least for now, is finally dead.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The American team, who had an entry for the 2010 season but failed to be ready in time, has completely closed down its operations at its Charlotte base.<\/p>\n<p>In the past week, permanent layoff notices were sent in writing to all of the USF1 staff, who until now had been on unpaid leave.<\/p>\n<p>In the letters, team principal Ken Anderson noted that the employees might be rehired in the future &#8220;if business conditions improve&#8221;, but explained that &#8220;serious economic and funding challenges&#8221; have ended the project.<\/p>\n<p>It emerges that up to ten of the employees have filed grievances with North Carolina&#8217;s Department of Labor over unpaid wages.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson could not be reached for comment, and sporting director Peter Windsor was not mentioned in the layoff notice.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USF1, at least for now, is finally dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5261,5340,247,248,313],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4106,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions\/4106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}