UK-based establishment United Biscuits is planning to cut over 200 jobs at its McVitie’s factory in Glasgow, in a move to restructure working practices and manufacturing operations at the site. Commenting on the job cuts, GMB ...
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Austria based, Lenzing said looking at the challenging conditions, it will not undertake any new expansion projects at any of its viscose staple fibre (VSF) production sites across the world. Although Lenzing continues to anticipate good ...
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Smith & Nephew plc has figuratively yanked the job-security bandage off 108 employees at its St. Petersburg, FL, wound-care plant. The company plans to close the factory and lay the workers off by January 9, according to a report in the ...
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Technology companies are cutting jobs at a faster pace this year compared to last despite signs that the overall economy is doing well, according to a report by Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. The global outplacement consulting firm ...
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The medtech jobs picture looked rosy in 2013, with the top 15 device makers in hiring mode, according to an EP Vantage report out this week. Excluding pharmaceutical spinoffs, these companies expanded their collective workforce by 6%, the ...
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Osram has unveiled plans for nearly 8,000 more job losses. The announcement comes as the German lighting giant's Push programme, which launched in 2012, comes to a close. "We will successfully complete the first stage of Osram Push ...
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Hillshire Brands, a US-based food company, plans to close its manufacturing facility in Florence, Alabama, a move which will result in about 1,100 job cuts. In a regulatory filing, the company said that continuing operations at the plant ...
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The number of businesses indicating they will hire staff in the months ahead has increased for a third consecutive quarter, supporting a view that underlying economic conditions are stable and that confidence is sound in spite of recent ...
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Sony made waves overnight with the company's head office announcing a global restructure that will see it shed 5,000 jobs, sell its Vaio PC business to Japanese company Japan Industrial Partners (JIP), and separate its TV business as a ...
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Swedish truck-maker Volvo AB said it is more than doubling planned job cuts to 4,400 as its fourth-quarter operating income dropped 17%to 996 million kronor($180.1 million). Sales in the fourth quarter rose 8%to 76.6 billion kronor($13.9 ...
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US chip giant Intel said Friday it will trim its workforce by five percent this year as it shifts from personal computers to powering mobile gadgets. Word of the job cuts came a day after Intel reported that its net profit last year sank ...
Struggling US computer giant Hewlett-Packard plans to slash 5,000 more jobs than previously announced because of a difficult business environment, a regulatory filing shows. HP will eliminate 34,000 positions by the end of its fiscal year ...
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Transport Workers Union national secretary Tony Sheldon said it was disappointing that Qantas had refused to outline where its 1,000 job cuts would fall. Qantas management was asked for details of the 1,000 job cuts at a meeting with ...
Following several negotiation sessions, the Management Board and Works Council of Lenzing AG agreed on a comprehensive package of social measures designed to cushion the effects of the recently announced cost reduction plan. A ...
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HP is to axe 1,124 UK jobs at the start of 2014 in a move that union Unite claimed was a result of "a long-term addiction to a culture of job cuts". The systems giant is cutting 29,000 jobs worldwide - some eight per cent of its workforce ...