The top name in photocopying, Xerox, has informed several of its employees that they will be laid off. Last year, Xerox announced that the company would be laying off 2,500 employees. According to a company spokesperson, they will begin laying off an unspecified number of employees at their Webster, New York center. Bill McKee, a [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 15, 2011
International designer and floor, ceiling and cabinet manufacturer Armstrong World Industries is cutting 114 jobs in Statesville, North Carolina. The company will lay off 103 hourly employees as well as 11 salaried positions on April 29. On that date, the company will halt production at its engineered wood flooring plant, hence the layoffs. According to [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 7, 2011
About 500 to 515 workers face an impending layoff as Faurecia, one of the world’s largest international automotive parts manufacturers, announced a plan to slash over 50% of its workforce in the company’s manufacturing plant in Dexter, Missouri. The truck and car parts maker currently employs around 1,100 staff and the slated job cut is [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Motricity, a Washington-based provider of integrated mobile data solutions for mobile devices, axed 12 workers at its Durham, North Carolina headquarters on Monday in line with the company’s restructuring plan. However, the wireless technology company gave assurances that the Durham office will continue its operation and will remain open. Jennifer Morgan, Motricity spokeswoman, said that [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Walt Disney Co., the world’s largest media and entertainment company, announced a plan to slash about 14 jobs from its theme-park division as part of the companywide major restructuring scheme. Almost a quarter of the jobs from the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts are slated for cuts beginning in January 2011. The company said that [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 23, 2010
Around 40 employees are slated for temporary layoffs beginning in January 2011 at the Hercules Cement Company Inc., a manufacturer of building construction cement in Stokertown, PA due to the decline in product demand. The temporary layoffs are set to impact nearly half of the unionized work force of the plant, which currently has about [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 17, 2010
More than 100 workers face an impending lay off as the Passaic County, NJ officials scout for effective ways to close the $7 million budget gap in 2011. The Board of Chosen Freeholders, with 6-1 votes, will now order the county Administrator Anthony J. De Nova to start creating a layout plan on the slated [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 17, 2010
The world’s leading mobile phone supplier, Nokia, revealed that it will axe around 800 employees in its home country, Finland, beginning in January 2011. According to the reports from Reuters, the affected employees will be entitled to receive severance packages with 5-15 months worth of pay. The other employees will be subject to relocation in [...]
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Over 650 workers face an impending lay off as the Yahoo Inc., a California-based worldwide web portal, plans to slash its workforce to reduce costs and increase profits. Reports said that around 5% of its staff will be eliminated soon, which is equivalent to 650 employees, from the product units of the multinational company. Yahoo [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Solyndra, a California-based company that designs and manufactures solar panels, will push through with its plan of axing around 170 workers, in which 130 are temporary employees and 40 are regular employees, despite its recent receipt of a $535 million stimulus federal loan grant. The federal loan grant is aimed at assisting the company in [...]
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