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ABN Amro – To cut up to 1,000 jobs
ABN Amro Group NV, the state-owned Dutch lender preparing for a share sale next year, will cut as many as 1,000 jobs by 2018 and shrink its branch network as customers move to banking on their phones. via ABN Amro to Cut Up to 1,000 Jobs in Consumer Bank by 2018 – Bloomberg.
Council Jobs in UK – More than 20000 to be cut says union
Plans are underway to cut more than 20,000 jobs at 26 councils, a survey by the GMB union has found.The union says the cuts, coming on top of 900,000 public sector jobs lost since 2010, means that essential public services are being cut to the bone. Figures published by the Office of National Statistics show … Continue reading
JPMorgan – To cuts 8,000 more mortgage and card jobs
JPMorgan Chase & Co. expects to eliminate 8,000 more jobs this year in mortgage and community banking than it forecast 20 months ago as profit and revenue from the businesses drop. What’s happened is that refinancing activity has fallen way off as super-low interest rates pulled forward refi demand, and depleted normal rates to come. … Continue reading
SNC-Lavalin – To cut 4,000 jobs
SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. is slashing almost 10 per cent of its global workforce and sharply revising downward its 2014 outlook as it exits underperforming businesses and imposes more cost-cutting measures. Montreal-based SNC said Thursday it will over the next 18 months scale back some activities and restructure and streamline some of its operations and corporate … Continue reading
Rolls-Royce – To cut 2,600 staff, mostly in the Aerospace division
British engineer Rolls-Royce (RR.L) plans to cut 2,600 jobs to save money and has replaced its finance director, aiming to restore confidence following two profit warnings in eight months. The world’s second-largest maker of aircraft engines said the job cuts, which will mostly come in the Aerospace division and will take 18 months to complete, … Continue reading
Scotiabank – To cut 1,500 jobs
Scotiabank (TSX:BNS) warns that it’s cutting the equivalent of 1,500 jobs companywide – about two-thirds of them in Canada – and taking a number of accounting measures that will cut about $341 million from its profit for the fourth quarter. Despite the magnitude of the announcement, the bank said it remains on track to meet … Continue reading
Sprint – To cut 2000 jobs
Sprint Corp (S.N) announced on Monday it will fire 2,000 employees and it cut its 2014 adjusted earnings forecast as the company attempts to reduce costs and turn around several quarters of losses. The layoffs are expected to lower labor costs by $400 million a year and are the latest job cuts by the third … Continue reading
Lanxess – To cut up to 1,200 jobs
German chemicals maker Lanxess may slash up to 1,200 jobs, or about 7 percent of its total workforce, as part of a group-wide overhaul to counter overcapacity in the synthetic rubber industry, German daily Rheinische Post reported. The world’s largest maker of synthetic rubber plans to offer voluntary redundancy packages and early retirement schemes but … Continue reading
Microsoft – Cuts another 3,000 jobs, reaching almost 18,000 cuts overall
Microsoft this morning cut an additional 3,000 jobs from its workforce around the world, saying it has now completed almost all of the 18,000 job cuts that were announced by CEO Satya Nadella in July. About 638 of the job cuts are in the Seattle region. That brings the regional total to more than 2,700 positions … Continue reading
Lloyds Bank – Profits up by 41% and 9,000 layoffs
The Lloyds Bank results are out this morning: Profits in the third quarter are up an impressive 41%, but Britain’s second-biggest bank is laying off 9,000 employees and closing 150 branches. via Analysts On 9,000 Layoffs By Lloyds Bank – Business Insider.
Air France-KLM – To cut 7,500 jobs
The Dutch arm of Air France-KLM (AIRF.PA) plans to cut its workforce by 7,500 jobs, or 25 percent, largely through outsourcing, a Dutch daily newspaper reported on Tuesday. The measure is expected to be announced at the release of quarterly earnings by the French-Dutch carrier on Wednesday, the Algemeen Dagblad said, citing the head of … Continue reading
Alitalia – To cut 1,000 jobs
Italy’s largest airline Alitalia could cut up to 1,000 jobs, according to reports this weekend by Italian news agency Adnkronos. The agency cited a document signed by the airline’s management and several unions which states the airline will cut 879 ground crew, 61 pilots and 54 air stewards. The report suggests employees with receive letters of … Continue reading
Sears – Report of layoffs by Seeking Alpha disputed
A published report Thursday said Sears Holdings is laying off about 6,000 workers as it closes 110 stores within the next few months, many before Christmas, according to Seeking Alpha, a content service for financial markets… Spokesman Howard Riefs said “the reported store count and list of closures isn’t accurate.” He specified that one of … Continue reading
CBC Radio-Canada : 400 more layoffs by March 2015
Faced with the loss of its NHL broadcasts and shrinking funding from the federal government, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. will cut another 400 jobs by March of next year, according to several reports.CBC President Hubert Lacroix reportedly told members of the Canadian Media Guild (CMG) of the cuts, part of an ongoing campaign to reduce … Continue reading
Swedbank – To reduce staff by 600-800 employees
Swedbank, the first large Nordic bank to report third-quarter earnings, aims to cut costs to 16 billion Swedish crowns (2.23 billion US dollar) by 2016 from a projected 17.6 billion in 2014. That includes reducing staff by 600-800 employees in Sweden, around 5 percent of total staff. “The door for new recruits will essentially be … Continue reading
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