Taylor Bean & Whitaker shuts down, 5000 jobs at stake.
Alcoholic drinks manufacturer Altia furloughs 650 (all) employees.

Neste Oil announces 450 layoffs.
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics cuts 285 jobs.

Katana Summit layoffs 70 workers.

Kindred Healthcare layoffs 573 employees in Florida.

Bobcat Company plans to layoff 100 workers.
Analogic Corp layoffs 85 workers.

Insurance giant Axa Life plans to cut 350 jobs.

IBM Global Business Services Division cuts 200 jobs.

Celanese Corp plans to layoff 100 workers.

GKN Plc to cut 1100 jobs in 12 months.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel cuts 92 jobs.

Seagate layoffs 2000 workers in Singapore.
PNC Financial Services cuts 74 jobs in Miami.

Mohawk Industries cuts 400 jobs in Georgia.
Patriot Coal to layoff 314 workers.

Ticona Polymers to layoff 100 workers in Cleveland .

KV Pharmaceutical layoffs 300 workers .
Virginia International Terminals layoffs 90 employees.

Rainbows United layoffs 70 employees.

Total losses = 12313

Microsoft have booted out at least 3000 employees blaming the impact of the Economic Downturn on the company and if necessary they will take further actions if things do not improve in the coming months.  This is what the CEO steve Bullmer had to say via email.

In January, in response to the Global Economic Downturn, I announced our plan to adjust the company’s cost structure through spending reductions and job eliminations. Today, we are implementing the second phase of this plan.  This is difficult news to share. Because our success at Microsoft has always been the direct result of the talent, hard work, and commitment of our people, eliminating positions is hard.

As we move forward, we will continue to closely monitor the impact of the economic downturn on the company and if necessary, take further actions on our cost structure including additional job eliminations.

Job losses = 3000

• London-based advertising company WPP Group Plc will cut a total of 7200 jobs this year, hurt by cuts in client companies’ advertising spending amid the recession. Of the total planned job reductions, about half has already been lost, with the rest expected to go by the end of 2009.
• Software group Sage will announce 1000 job cuts.
• Plumbing giant Wolseley is axing more than 250 jobs at two sites in Lancashire and Oxfordshire. The bulk of the losses will be made at its distribution centre in Chorley with 133 jobs going when the lease on the building expires this August and it is also closing a distribution centre in Didcot with the loss of 76 jobs.
• XFM and Gold radio stations will be losing at least 20 jobs. Redundancies are expected online, in marketing and design departments too.
• Global defence giant BAE Systems announced the loss of 500 jobs and the closure of three sites, partly because of the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq. 50 jobs will go at its Newcastle plant on Scotswood Road, while sites at Telford in Shropshire, Leeds and Guildford in Surrey will close by June next year, with some compulsory redundancies expected.
• Five Pizza Hut restaurants are to close with the loss of around 130 jobs after the company which holds the Northern Ireland franchise went into administration.
• Vestas Wind Systems will slash it’s workforce by 1900. The company that makes wind turbines will make the redundancies mostly in Denmark and the UK, include 450 at it’s factory on the Isle Of Wight.