Sentences with phrase «recent job cuts»

Microsoft's recent job cuts in the handset division are a clear indication that the current CEO Nadella does not share Ballmer's enthusiasm for Windows Phone platform.

Following the most recent job cuts as part of Lenovo's consolidation efforts, Motorola lost a further 500 employees while Lenovo as a whole got rid of 10 % of its non-manufacturing workforce and 5 % of its staff company - wide.

But, even with a significant number of jobs saved, due to seasonal or part - time work, the recent job cuts pushed the country's unemployment rate back to 8 %.

(Writer / director Jason Reitman actually cast some of these parts with real victims of recent job cuts.)

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Penney, looking to steady its finances after reporting a loss of $ 116 million in its last fiscal year, also announced it was eliminating 130 positions at its headquarters in Plano, Texas, just the latest round of layoffs in recent years, as well as cutting 230 jobs at the store and regional level.

The price was above BlackBerry's recent value on public markets, following the company's announcement Friday that it will cut about 40 per cent of its global workforce, about 4,500 jobs, and record a writedown of nearly $ 1 billion.

Although he's got his work cut out for him, he took time out during his first week back on the job to talk not only about big - picture industry issues, but what he did with his personal time in recent months when he was barred from working for Zillow.

Wynne's recent election win spared Ontario from the 100,000 public service job cuts promised by her Conservative opponent Tim Hudak.

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.

Management has undertaken several cost - cutting initiatives in recent quarters, including job reductions, which appear to be progressing well.

Ancelotti has, in fairness, perhaps not quite looked cut out for the scale of the job needed at Arsenal based on his recent performances with major clubs.

With significant cuts to the numbers of military posts in recent years, there are large numbers of ex-service personnel now entering the job market.

Despite Governor Pataki's recent pronouncements regarding the relationship between jobs and cuts in broad based taxes, the large personal income tax cuts that New York implemented in 1987, 1988 and 1989 did not inoculate our state from the emerging national recession.

Korn also notes that declining state aid and further action by school districts have cut about 10,000 teaching jobs in 700 school districts in recent years, mostly by eliminating unfilled positions.

RBS registered a # 2 billion profit in its most recent trading period, but is pushing through 3,500 job cuts to focus on its core business and shrink its investment bank side.

'' The agreement includes support for a comprehensive New York Works Agenda that will create thousands of jobs with new investments in New York's infrastructure; passing a fair tax reform plan that achieves the first major restructuring of the tax code in decades, resulting in a tax cut for 4.4 million middle - class New York taxpayers; approving $ 50 million in additional relief for areas devastated by recent floods; and reducing the MTA payroll tax to provide relief for small businesses.»

Savage, who announced her bid to unseat longtime Republican state Sen. Hugh Farley, said her role in helping cut county property taxes and create 3,500 private - sector jobs in recent years makes her qualified to end budget stalemates and boost New York state's economy.

Despite the levels of government cuts and public sector job losses in recent years, the number of strikes remains relatively low.

The agreement includes support for a comprehensive New York Works Agenda that will create thousands of jobs with new investments in New York's infrastructure, passing a fair tax reform plan that achieves the first major restructuring of the tax code in decades resulting in a tax cut for 4.4 million middle class New Yorkers taxpayers, approving $ 50 million in additional relief for areas devastated by recent floods, and reducing the MTA payroll tax to provide relief for small businesses.

An additional $ 150 million would go to NASA's aeronautics research program (adding 1,000 jobs), which the Bush Administration has cut severely in recent years.

Field notes that there will be «small decreases» in years to come for the publicly funded science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), which in recent years has been hit with massive cuts that resulted in extensive job losses.

Unlike the cut - and - paste script jobs of recent Broadway - to - screen transfers like, say, «Doubt» or «Frost / Nixon,» Mitchell promises a complete cinematic reimagining of the material, citing the way his previous films incorporated animation and art into their film language as a point of reference.

Last week, Eduflack wrote about recent efforts by Congress to provide some needed funding for teachers» jobs by cutting funding for many of the education reforms, like Race to the Top, just enacted or increased last year.

Jon Richards, Head of Education, UNISON, said: «Education budgets have been cut to the bone in recent years, and school support staff have suffered huge job losses.

The job cuts would mean a third straight year of layoffs in the school district, though cuts in recent years did not include teachers.

A recent Wall Street Journal article underscores this point, noting that as their parents lost jobs and homes and delayed retirement, these children are — in turn — boosting savings, cutting spending, and planning for retirement.

Trump's recent massive corporate tax cuts were sold as a job creation mechanism, but rather than creating jobs, all nine companies reported layoffs that have recently taken place or are planned for 2018.

The state government has made drastic cuts to school funding in recent years, forcing communities across the state to raise property taxes and eliminate more than 23,000 education jobs.

Since then, of course, there has been something of a pandemic of job cuts — not least in recent months — as firms take increasingly tough measures to control costs as the long - awaited market recovery fails to emerge.

A recent study found half of the lawyers at London's biggest law firms believe AI and machine learning technologies will threaten their roles and lead to job cuts.

The recent recession lead to funding cut backs and hospital staffing reforms, which also significantly added to the difficulty of finding a job.

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In our present times the job market scenario has reached an unprecedented state of cut throat competition in the recent times.

Swindon has hit hard times in the recent recession, with unemployment rising and major employers in the area cutting jobs, closing offices or going into administration.

«The jump in optimism to start the year can be attributed to the robust job creation in most of the country, as well as the larger paychecks households are enjoying because of faster wage growth and the recent tax cuts,» says Yun.

It's not just the companies that are burdened by these recent changes though; it's their employees too, as many of these mega-lenders are starting to cut jobs as well.

«The jump in optimism to start the year can be attributed to the robust job creation in most of the country, as well as the larger paychecks households are enjoying because of faster wage growth and the recent tax cuts,» said Yun.

The unemployment rate is expected to hold at an elevated 9 percent to 10 percent in 2010 and won't likely show notable progress until 2011 because job - cutting in recent years has been so severe.

«The jump in optimism to start the year can be attributed to the robust job creation in most of the country, as well as the larger paychecks households are enjoying because of faster wage growth and the recent tax cuts,» Yun says.