Nokia to axe 285 jobs at Salo plant.
Nokia Corporation will lay off 285 people in Finland, as the world’s largest mobile phone maker strives to cut costs and streamline operations. In November, Nokia axed 550 jobs in Japan, Denmark and Finland at research and development units that globally employ 17000 workers.
The latest layoffs, at the Salo handset unit where it has 2200 workers, are part of a drive “to further increase production speed and efficiency for a growing smart phone market.
Source: The Associated Press
Total losses = 285
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- Jobless rate hits 5-month low but payrolls fall – http://digg.com/u1MXfN #
- GMAC cutting 554 jobs – http://digg.com/u1MUEF #
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- Toyota to axe 750 British jobs – http://tinyurl.com/y9trnpf #
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Shell to axe 1000 staff after 75% slump in profits.
Oil giant Shell is axing another 1000 staff after revealing a 75% slump in profits. The multi-national’s latest clear-out is on top of 5,000 redundancies announced by the firm last year.
Bosses were tight-lipped on where the latest cuts would fall but hundreds of UK workers lost their jobs in the last round. It comes amid fears for 900 staff at Shell’s Stanlow oil refinery.
Source: The Mirror.co.uk
Total losses = 1000
Is the UK recession really over?
According to the site UK Recession the recession is over but what does that really mean to you and I?
Can the country stop blaming ED for everything?
GlaxoSmithKline expected to axe 4000 jobs.
Drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline is expected to announce plans to axe up to 4000 jobs this week as part of its ongoing restructuring. It is thought the majority of the cuts will be made to its European and US workforce, as the group shifts its focus to emerging markets.
Glaxo is expected to announce the planned job cuts alongside its full-year results on Thursday, when it is thought the group will report a return to annual profits growth, following an 11% fall during the previous financial year, boosted by sales of its swine flu vaccination.
Source: The Press Associated.
Total losses = 4000
Astra-Zeneca to slash 8000 jobs in next 4 years.
8000 more jobs are to be slashed across Astra-Zeneca’s global operations under a sweeping job cuts programme that has already seen 12,600 roles axed at the pharmaceuticals giant.
The jobs will go over the next four years across global functions, including sales and marketing, business infrastructure, research and development and the supply chain.
Source: neBusiness.co.uk
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Total losses = 8000
Shop Direct closes with 1500 job losses.
Britain’s biggest catalogue shopping group is closing three call centres with the loss of up to 1500 jobs. Shop Direct, which owns Kays and Littlewoods, will axe 900 in Sunderland, 420 in Burnley and 180 in Newtown.
Union representatives said the news of the likely job losses was “disastrous”.
Show on mapRAF Kinloss to lose 108 skilled MR2 Nimrod staff.
Scores of civilian jobs are to be axed at a Moray airbase which has played a key role in the Afghan and Iraq wars. RAF Kinloss will lose 108 skilled staff who maintain and service its fleet of 11 MR2 Nimrod surveillance aircraft.
Total losses = 108
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Bosch axes 900 employees at Miskin Cardiff plant.
A struggling car parts factory is set to close at a cost of 900 jobs. dealing a further blow to British manufacturing, the decline of which has been accelerated by the recession.
Many thousands of jobs have been lost in the sector, concentrated on traditional industrial areas in Wales, northern England and the Midlands.
Bosch said the decision followed a 45 per cent fall in demand for alternators for luxury vehicles. Remaining production will be transferred to a sister plant in Hungary next year.
An official for the German manufacturing business said the decision to close the Miskin plant near Cardiff was a symptom of the group’s wider difficulties. The company expects to announce its first annual loss in 60 years in April.
Total losses = 900
Source: FT.com
The future’s black for 300 jobs at Orange call centre.
The mobile telephone unit of France Telecom, Orange announced plans to close a call centre in Bristol with the loss of 300 jobs.
Total losses = 300
40 jobs to go at Keighley and Skipton local tax office.
More than 40 tax office jobs in Keighley and Skipton are to be axed under plans to close another 130 offices nationally.
The Keighley office in Worth House has 16 staff, with 28 affected at Cavendish House, Skipton.
Remaining staff at the two offices, which have already been scaled down, will leave by April 2011. They have been given until February 8 to choose between voluntary redundancy or to be considered for redeployment.
More than 20000 jobs have been axed since 2006, while over the same time HMRC had effectively written off £11bn in uncollected tax
Total losses = 40
Source: Chris Holland of Telegraph & Argus
Not a happy new year for 1400 AOL staff!
AOL will be getting rid of staff in the German offices in Hamburg, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt and Munich and firing up to 140 people. They all plan to sack everyone in the Spanish and Swedish offices.
Total losses = 1400
It is not “ho ho ho” for 33 Deane Apparel employees.
Thirty-three full and part-time jobs will be axed just before Christmas at the Deane Apparel clothing factory in Leeston, south of Christchurch. The closure on December 18 will bring the curtain down on the factory that has been owned by Deane Apparel since 1970.
Total losses = 33
Washington Post closes last three offices.
In a cost cutting move, the Washington Post is closing its remaining three US news bureaus outside of the Washington, D.C. area and will cover national news from its base in Washington. The six reporters who work in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago will be offered a relocation to Washington, while three news assistants will lose their jobs.
The Washington Post, which has a daily circulation of 673,180 and 890,163 on Sunday, has axed more than 200 jobs through buyout offers earlier this year and after several rounds of earlier buyouts. The Washington Post had already closed the Austin, Denver and Miami national bureaus in recent years and as like nearly every other newspaper in the US, has been battered by falling advertising revenue and circulation as readers get more news online for free.
BMI announces 600 job losses due to worst recession ever.
British Midlands (BMI) has announced plans to lay off 600 employees and axe five routes as part of a restructuring effort aimed at returning the company to profit. Most of the job losses at the British airline – now fully owned by German flag carrier Lufthansa – will affect cabin crew and other front-line “operational” staff. BMI will also cease to operate outbound services to Tel Aviv, Brussels, Kiev and Aleppo as of next January, with flights to Amsterdam being axed in March. The loss of its Tel Aviv service, which was only launched two years ago, will come as a particularly heavy blow to Heathrow’s second largest carrier.
Announcing the loss of 600 jobs from a workforce of just 4,400, the airline said;
The move takes place against a background where the airline industry is facing the challenges of a downturn in demand and the worst recession in the UK since records began.
Total losses = 600
Source: Cheapflights.co.uk
