Daunt hailed the acquisition was «definitely a good thing» for the chain, a vindication of «good old - fashioned bookselling», stressing that there were no closures or
job cuts planned as a result.
The company, which has about 33,800 employees as of Sept. 24, informed about
its job cut plans in California in a regulatory notice that was filed with the state on April 18.
Not exact matches
Green: Their
plan for
job creation rests on a suite of sustainable - development pledges, wage increases and targeted tax
cuts.
-- BlackBerry (TSX: BB) confirms it's
cutting more
jobs this week as part of the second phase of its previously announced transformation
plan.
(Amazon denied
plans for
job cuts.)
It said the
planned restructuring measures involve
job cuts and closing or integrating manufacturing bases, and would lower annual costs by 50 billion yen from the year ending March 2020.
The reasons Goldman
plans to add 1,000
jobs to its Singapore offices in the near future, and to lay off about that number world wide to make room for them, are reportedly regulations and a need to
cut costs.
Panoramic Resources and Mincor Resources have announced
plans to put their last operating mines on care and maintenance in response to the depressed nickel market, with Panoramic
cutting 50
jobs today with more to follow at both companies.
Perth - based mining developer Cape Lambert Resources has announced it is
cutting 117
jobs and postponing a
planned dividend payment, in response to the sharp downturn in the iron ore market.
CEO Darrell Kopke, a veteran of Lululemon Athletica, is out amid
job cuts at Kit and Ace, but the company
plans 10 more locations
To try and secure the deal, the government announced an austerity
plan to raise taxes and slash US$ 20 billion in public spending — including
cuts to social welfare and public
jobs, and a lowering of the minimum wage.
Ford Motor said on Wednesday it
plans to
cut 1,400 salaried
jobs in North America and Asia through voluntary early retirement and other financial incentives as the No. 2 U.S. automaker looks to boost its sagging stock price.
Even Lego, which has posted years of growth, said in September that sales of its colorful bricks fell for the first time in 13 years, and announced
plans to
cut 1,400
jobs.
EMC (emc) said on Thursday that it
plans to spend $ 250 million on a restructuring
plan that includes an undisclosed number of
job cuts.
The closing of the factory will leave 635 hourly workers and 72 salaried people without
jobs in Madison, but that's just one of seven plants that Kraft Heinz announced it would shutter on Nov. 4 in a
plan to
cut 14 % of Kraft Heinz's North American factory workforce.
It allowed her to woo NDP supporters who feared a slash - and - burn Tory government, while also exploiting the Conservative
plan to
cut 100,000 public sector
jobs to balance the budget as an economic apocalypse only she could stop.
The company has
planned to slash its capital investments for this year to $ 29 billion from $ 47 billion in 2014, as well as
cut 12,500
jobs across 2015 and 2016.
A study from the Penn Wharton Budget Model in October estimated that Trump's tax
cuts would boost GDP by 1.12 % and push
jobs up by 11.7 million more than what would have been expected without his
plan by 2018.
ZURICH, April 10 - Swiss jewellery and watch brand De Grisogono
plans to
cut 41
jobs after sales of its high - end jewellery pieces fell short of expectations.
To that end, Weisler reiterated HP's restructuring
plans from earlier this year that involve
cutting 3,000
jobs by the end of 2016.
Under the tentative
plan from the Office of Management and Budget, the agency's funding would be reduced by roughly 25 percent and about 3,000
jobs would be
cut, about 19 percent of the agency's staff.
Boeing Co.
plans to move about 2,500 positions to other sites,
cut 500
jobs, and close two facilities by the end of 2020.
The media company said the
job cuts were part of its
plan to save between $ 400 to $ 500 million in costs.
The largest U.S. solar installer, SolarCity (SCTY),
cut 550
jobs from Nevada last week, with
plans to relocate the affected workers to more solar - friendly states.
Even though the company announced a $ 10 billion restructuring
plan centered on 5,700
job cuts, skepticism kept the stock far below its 2007 highs.
Many of the business tax
cuts in the Republican
plan are simply windfalls for people who made business investments in the past — and even if investors are very responsive to incentives, they can't respond to the bill by investing more in businesses and creating more
jobs in the past.
The company completed a 15 per cent
cut to its workforce in January and February, eliminating between 500 and 700
jobs, as part of its
plan to trim $ 1 billion in cumulative capital, operating and administration costs over two years.
On an otherwise bleak day when Bombardier announced
plans to
cut 7,000
jobs worldwide over the next two years, the company also issued a rare, long - awaited piece of good news: Air Canada has signed a letter of intent to purchase up to 75 CSeries aircraft.
Generic drug giant Teva really is going to
cut tens of thousands of
jobs in a gigantic restructure for the struggling and debt - laden pharmaceutical — in fact, the 14,000
planned layoffs announced Thursday actually surpass initial reports.
But his
plans mostly involved
cutting jobs and media holdings rather than actually making money from Yahoo's websites.
Macy's also said it was overhauling its merchandising organization by merging its merchandising,
planning and private - label functions into a single entity,
cutting 100
jobs in the process.
Other retailers
planning to or already having
cut jobs include Walmart, (WMT) Whole Foods Market (WFM) and Target (TGT).
Senior executives are debating the elements of a comprehensive
plan to streamline Ford's internal operations and rebuild profitability in the company's North American business, and
job cuts can not be ruled out, these people said.
The company recently announced a
plan to
cut about 40 per cent of its global workforce, or 4,500
jobs, as a way to save money.
High - end electric vehicle maker Tesla Motors Inc (TSLA) said Monday it is
cutting jobs in China under a restructuring
plan launched earlier this year, after missing a sales target in the world's biggest car market.
The president - elect has promised to «rescind all the
job - destroying Obama executive actions, including the Climate Action
Plan,» Obama's national blueprint for
cutting carbon pollution.
Schlumberger (NYSE: SLB) announced
plans to
cut 10,000
jobs this year, a more than 10 percent
cut from its total staff of 95,000.
«If it is correct that the speaker, before he resigns, has
cut a deal with Nancy Pelosi to fund the Obama administration for the rest of this year, to fund Obamacare, to fund executive amnesty, to fund
Planned Parenthood, to fund implementation of this Iran deal, and then presumably to land a cushy K Street
job after joining with the Democrats to implement all of President Obama's priorities, that is not the behavior one would expect from a Republican speaker of the House.»
As far as what that actually means in the short term, Reuters points out that the company
plans to
cut at least 425
jobs in Finland this year.
In July of that year, the bank announced an initiative to trim more than $ 1 billion in costs including compensation, a
plan that entailed
cutting 1,000
jobs.
Announcements by Wal - Mart and GM come as both companies are
cutting jobs in the country, and their hiring, which was
planned for some time, represent a small increase in their total U.S. workforce.
U.S.
job cuts soared to a nearly four - year high in July as the military announced
plans to reduce troop and civilian workforce payrolls, according to outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
Bombardier's rail unit is set to bear the brunt of a companywide
plan to
cut as many as 7,500
jobs by the end of 2018.
The price tag for the BG Group acquisition is $ 51 billion, with
plans to sell $ 30 billion worth of assets once the deal is sealed, and
cut 2,800
jobs, a figure that's a noteworthy percentage of BG's existing 5,200 employees.
Under the Canada Economic Action
Plan the deficit will be eliminated by 2015 - 16; although total net public debt will have increased by $ 150 billion, the debt ratio will have declined to 33.0 per cent in 2015 - 16 and reach the government's target of 25 percent by 2019 - 20; program spending will fall to below 13 percent of GDP and will continue to fall thereafter; public sector
jobs have been eliminated; and income and corporate taxes have been
cut.
In the process, GE
plans to
cut 12,000
jobs from its global power business.
French companies must inform labor unions about
plans to reorganize, including staff moves or
job cuts, which often lead to protracted negotiations between management and employees.
One of the oldest names on Wall Street is moving to one of the fastest - growing cities in the South, reinforcing a recent shift in finance
jobs to cheaper parts of the U.S. AllianceBernstein Holding LP
plans to relocate its headquarters, chief executive and most of its New York staff to Nashville, Tenn., in an attempt to
cut costs, according to people familiar with the matter.
The last time employers announced fewer
job cuts was June of 2000, when 17,241
planned layoffs were recorded.
It also
plans to
cut 6,500
jobs as part of a restructuring
plan to eliminate overlapping expenses after its $ 14 billion acquisition of Alstom's energy business.