Holden’s Adelaide manufacturing workforce has agreed to revised employment conditions that include a three-year pay freeze to help protect the company’s future as a local manufacturer. The Australian Manufacturing Workers ...
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Facebook is gearing up for a new project to simplify its advertising platform, making it easier for marketers to decide how to place ads across the site. One of the plan's major goals is to reduce redundancies in the 27 different types of ...
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Turkey processor Bernard Matthews has blamed the pressure of rising commodity prices for putting 55 jobs under threat at its cooked meats site in Great Witchingham, Norfolk. Rising input prices have put 55 jobs under threat at Bernard ...
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The redundancies will be at the company’s Boronia site, which employs 363 people. GSK said that it is estimated that 120 jobs will be lost through the transformation. However, it also said that any redundancy will not come into ...
Safaricom expects to increase its data market share in Africa after reporting an increase in both voice and data revenue for its latest fiscal year. For the ended March 31, after-tax profit jumped 39 percent year over year to 17.5 billion ...
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SMR Automotive will shift part of its production from Adelaide to Thailand, at a cost of up to 90 local jobs. A supplier of rear-view mirrors, indicators and door handles for local manufacturers Ford, Holden and Toyota, SMR Automotive ...
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Unite the union has slammed Coca-Cola Enterprises’ (CCE’s) plan to cut nearly 300 jobs as “a devastating blow”. Unite has called Coca-Cola Enterprises' plan to cut nearly 300 jobs 'a devastating blow' The union ...
In June, Harvard's Clean Energy Project (CEP) plans to release to solar power developers a list of the top 20,000 organic compounds that could be used to make cheap, printable photovoltaic cells (PVCs). The list, culled from about seven ...
The South Australian Government will “return to the negotiating table” over its funding deal with Holden after the local car maker earlier this week announced its plan to axe 500 jobs. Following a three-hour meeting with ...
Systems management software vendor BMC Software has announced job cuts following the conclusion of a review into its operations. The restructuring will result in a pre-tax charge estimated at between $33m and $38m (£21m and ...
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Holden will cut 500 jobs across its manufacturing and product development operations just one month out from the start of production of the new VF Commodore. A total of 400 workers from the Adelaide plant and 100 “hourly paid” ...
Derby-based ethnic food manufacturer S&A Foods plans to make up to 70 of its 500 staff redundant as it restructures its chilled ready meals business. Perween Warsi's firm S&A Foods will be making 70 of its 500 staff redundant The ...
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As previously communicated, in the face of increasingly difficult domestic trading conditions for its soda ash business and increasing costs, Penrice Soda Holdings Limited has decided to close soda ash production at its Osborne, Adelaide ...
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Visual 2000 International Inc. announces that Green Lake, Wisconsin-based PGI, Inc. has begun implementation of its Visual End2End™ enterprise solution. The manufacturer of Cobra™ Flame Resistant Hoods, FireLine® Wildland ...
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Over the past two weeks, glass manufacturing workers at CSR Viridian’s plants in Sydney and Melbourne have spoken to World S ocialist W eb S ite correspondents about the closure and merger of facilities that will cost more than 200 ...
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