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– Teradyne Inc. will eliminate 350 jobs and further reduce its executives’ annual salaries as part of ongoing plans to lower expenses as demand for chip making equipment continues to decline, the chip testing equipment maker said in a regulatory filing.
– And with that, 622 jobs are set to expire between June 24 and July 8, according to a plant-closing notice the company filed with the state Department of Labor on Monday.
– The Richmond, Va., company also said it cut its work force by nearly 300 jobs in the week of March 31 and plans to freeze its pension plan at the end of May.
– MOUNT VERNON, Ill. – Anheuser-Busch says it will close its facility in southern Illinois later this year, costing about 80 jobs.
– NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times is cutting sections and trimming its budget for freelance contributions in another round of belt tightening aimed at coping with a steep decline in ad revenue.
– DHL Express’ decision to reactivate its Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky (CVG) facility will mean the movement of about 180 full-time positions and 650 part-time positions from Wilmington to the Northern Kentucky airport, a DHL spokesman said this morning, April 17.
– More than 500 ABX Air employees are getting laid off in the latest round of job losses announced Thursday.
– UAW Local 122 president Doug Rice said 450 to 500 employees will be laid off starting April 20. Rice said those laid off include assembly plant and maintenance workers as well as skilled trades workers. 
-GARY | About 40 U.S. Steel Corp. workers were recently laid off, some permanently, because of problems with a blast furnace, local union officials confirmed Thursday.
– Boeing today will issue about 300 layoff notices companywide.
– Three months after eliminating dozens of jobs at its Kansas City plant, Harley-Davidson will lay off 70 more local workers in response to sluggish sales.
– Seventeen non-clinical employees at Jackson Hospital were laid off this week, representing about 1.5 percent of the total work force at the Pine Street hospital, said hospital spokesman Peter Frohmader.
– The company will cut 3,900 contract workers in Japan by March of next year, according to spokeswoman Hiroko Mochida. That is in addition to the 4,500 Japanese contract workers it previously said would be cut by last month.
– STOCKHOLM (AP) — Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson on Friday posted a euro293 million ($387 million) net loss in the first quarter on falling sales and said it would slash an additional 2,000 jobs to cut costs.
– Howard Kennedy has kicked off a redundancy consultation with 40 jobs at the West End firm under threat.
– ALLENS Arthur Robinson has become the latest big firm to impose a pay freeze to deal with what is expected to be one of the most testing years for the legal services industry.
– The layoffs, the first since Chief Executive Officer Carol Bartz joined in January, could be formally announced Tuesday, when the Sunnyvale Internet company reports first-quarter earnings.
– Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is planning a new round of job cuts according to the reports as the company continues to cope with the aftermath of a downturn in online advertsing sales.
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– MILWAUKEE (AP) — Harley-Davidson Inc. said Thursday it expects to cut up to 400 more jobs as its first-quarter profit tumbled 37 percent due to a sluggish motorcycle market.
– SPOKANE – The local medical community is bracing for more job losses after Sacred Heart Medical Center announced it was laying off 19 positions Wednesday afternoon.
– Postal officials confirm they’ll cut 26 jobs on Staten Island
– Officials of the union that represents about 200 Indianapolis Star staff members last night agreed to what amounts to a 12-percent pay cut this year in contract negotiations with the newspaper’s struggling parent company, Virginia-based Gannett Co. Inc.
– DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines Co. reported a surprisingly large loss in the first quarter due to weak traffic in the recession, and the company said it was freezing hiring and offering buyouts to employees to trim its work force.
– GREENSBORO — The News & Record is cutting 25 jobs in its latest step to reduce costs resulting from the recession and its impact on advertising revenue.
– Last November, fiberglass manufacturer PPG announced plans for a multimillion-dollar plant expansion and the addition of 120 jobs in Shelby.
– Reading Hospital plans to reduce its workforce by 3.9 percent or 250 positions through attrition and layoffs, according to a hospital news release issued this morning.
– Nearly 400 jobs will be lost and community clinics that serve more than 11,000 patients will close, according to Aviles.
– Maybe not. In a note summarized by TheStreet.com, JPMorgan analyst Ehud Gelblum predicted today that Cisco could announce a 10% headcount reduction, which could save the company $900 million a year. Cisco could announce layoffs as part of its earnings report next month, another analyst told TheStreet.
– Cisco Systems has dismissed predictions of a 10 per cent reduction in headcount from a JPMorgan analyst.
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– – Autoblog reports, “As GM teeters on the brink of insolvency, it’s become clear that Saturn will get no new vehicles sourced from within GM and some dealers have decided to close up their stores. Since January 1, two dozen Saturn outlets have shuttered bringing the current total down to 394 with four more in Wisconsin due to close this week.” 
– The University of Washington will eliminate about 1,000 employee positions — including a yet-to-be-determined number of layoffs — by the beginning of May, the school’s president said Tuesday.
– PITTSBURGH (AP) — ArcelorMittal SA, the world’s largest steel maker, plans to idle a plant in Indiana and lay off about 400 workers due to global economic turmoil that has dampened demand for the metal.
– The Chronicle has reached a tentative agreement with a major union that could allow for the elimination of more than 80 driver positions as part of the newspaper’s campaign to cut costs in order to stay afloat.
– WICHITA – Hawker Beechcraft’s new chairman and CEO told employees Tuesday that more layoffs are in store as the planemaker reduces its production rates this year and next.
– The latest law firm layoff announcement hit five offices of Seattle-based Perkins Coie this week with the cut of a dozen associates and 26 nonlawyer staffers.
– SPOKANE, Wash. — Deaconess Medical Center in Spokane will eliminate about 90 jobs, adding to what is already the highest unemployment rate in Spokane County in years.
– CAMBRIDGE – Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences faces a projected recurring annual deficit of $220 million within two years if it does not cut spending substantially and reshape its academic ambitions, Michael D. Smith, the group’s dean, warned yesterday.
– St. Edward Mercy Health System announced Wednesday (April 15) that 64 full-time
– Switzerland’s biggest bank, UBS, has said it will seek to cut costs by shedding 8,700 jobs by next year.
-Air France-KLM has said it plans to cut between 2,500 and 3,000 jobs over the next two years.
– Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, yesterday launched a job optimization and regrouping program to reduce labor costs in China.
– Microsoft will offer 30,000 vouchers for free software training to help people in Washington get learn how to use Microsoft software.
– NEW YORK (Reuters) – Discover Financial Services (DFS.N), the fourth-largest U.S. credit card network, will cut 500 jobs, or 4 percent of its workforce, in May, hurt by mounting credit losses, the company said on Tuesday.
– KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Hallmark Cards Inc. on Tuesday said it will cut its U.S. work force by up to 8 percent as the nation’s largest greeting card-maker struggles with falling sales.
– About 20 people were laid off by Lightning owner OK Hockey, including Matt Hitchcock, who played ThunderBug. That brings the number of layoffs this year to about 27. Not hugely surprising given the state of the economy, but noteworthy nonetheless.
– MOLINE, Ill. (AP) — Deere & Co. plans to combine its agricultural equipment division and its commercial and consumer equipment unit, resulting in the elimination of about 200 salaried jobs.
– The implosion of one of America’s leading regional dailies continued Monday with the revelation that The Chicago Tribune will cut its newsroom staff by 20%, or roughly 90 employees, over the next couple of weeks.
– North Country Health Services announced it will extend wage reductions to its approximately 170 non-union staff members. These individuals will receive a 4 percent cut in pay effective early May 2009.
– April 14 (Reuters) – Telecom equipment maker Soapstone Networks Inc (SOAP.O) said it is slashing about 40 percent of its workforce to cut expenses.
– Qantas will cut 500 managers and may axe 1250 other staff as its profits come under pressure from the financial crisis.
– TOKYO (MarketWatch) — Qantas Airways said Tuesday it is cutting its fiscal 2009 earnings expectation by as much as 80% and plans to lower its flying capacity, reduce spending and eliminate up to 1,750 jobs in response to a major slump across the air travel industry.
– SINGAPORE (AFP) — Switzerland’s biggest bank UBS said that 240 jobs will be cut from its wealth management division in the Asia-Pacific region as part of a cost reduction exercise.
– Some 440 jobs are being cut worldwide by Gloucestershire-based engineering group Renishaw, it has been announced.
– NEW YORK (AP) — Diversified health care products company Johnson & Johnson said Thursday it will cut about 900 jobs, mainly from its Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals unit.
– EVERETT — The Boeing Co. will reduce its production rates for its 777 jet in 2010, making more layoffs likely, the company said Thursday.
– One of southern New Jersey’s largest employers says it has finished its final round of layoffs and furloughs.
– MILWAUKEE – GE Healthcare plans to layoff 179 employees at its GE Healthcare Monitoring Solutions plant in Milwaukee.
– National Semiconductor, a global company, shut down its South Portland plant Friday and plans to stay dark for two weeks.
– Telecoms giant BT is preparing to cut another 10,000 jobs and slash its dividend when it announces preliminary results next month.
– BT is preparing to axe another 10,000 jobs. The huge redundancy programme will be announced next month alongside a horrendous set of year-end figures that will include provisions of about £1.5 billion.
– ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss bank UBS will announce more job cuts soon, with staff in Switzerland and departments like marketing to be hit hard, newspapers reported on Sunday. Citing several unnamed sources, the Sonntagszeitung newspaper said managers had already started telling their staff about job losses, with departments like marketing and support functions hardest hit.
– The world’s leading sailboat builder, French-owned Beneteau, plans to cut nearly 600 jobs to stay afloat during the economic crisis.
– Hit by the housing crisis and economic downturn, Portland-based Hampton Affiliates will lay off about 275 employees at its Oregon and Washington sawmills — including 85 in Tillamook — as a result of a reduction in operating hours.
– Citing a downturn in the lumber market, officials at the Portland, Ore.-based Hampton Affiliates announced this week that they plan to cut production and lay off 43 percent of the sawmill and planer mill employees at the Darrington operation.
– About 100 sales support positions in stores across the country are being eliminated, and 31 jobs have been cut in a reorganization of marketing, public relations, advertising, creative services and production.
– Farm machinery maker Deere & Co on Wednesday said it plan to cut 160 workers at its Des Moines, Iowa facility, effective April 27.
– Kaiser Permanente Northern California has laid off 70 nonclinical staff across the region in response to declining enrollment, officials confirmed.
– AUBURNDALE – The closing of the International Paper Company plant in Auburndale and the elimination of the 96 jobs there is a significant blow to the city, a community business leader said Monday.
– WEST CHESTER TWP. — Poor business conditions continue to take a toll on local steelmaking operations as AK Steel confirmed about 300 workers are still on layoff at Middletown Works.
– – But the company continues to lay off a few workers here and there, according to two Tyco employees who contacted The Patriot-News.
– The Timmins Times has learned that roughly 130 contract worker layoffs are occurring at the Xstrata Nickel Montcalm Mine in Timmins as the result of what the company says is “an unplanned ground fall.”
– (Crain’s) — Vedder Price PC laid off nine lawyers, joining the growing ranks of firms that have cut staff amid an industry downturn.
– PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC announced it plans to eliminate as many as 9,000 positions globally, affecting some 1,250 jobs at Citizens Financial Group in the United States.
– TOKYO — Sharp Corp. Wednesday forecast a deeper net loss for its fiscal year ended March 31 citing restructuring costs and an additional securities valuation loss, and said it would cut 1,500 temporary jobs.
– Sharp Corp. (TYO:6753) have forecast a much deeper loss for its fiscal year than they first thought for the year ended March 31. The electronics giant were citing restructuring costs as well as an additional securities valuation loss, Sharp also announced that they will be cutting 1,500 temporary jobs.
– Whirlpool Corp (WHR.N) said on Tuesday it would close its washing machine manufacturing facility in Shanghai, China, eliminating 600 jobs, as the appliance maker consolidates its Chinese operations.
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