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HP to lay off 27,000

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 23 May 2012 21:26:18 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Hewlitt-Packard, which has its Europe-Africa-Middle East head office in Meyrin, Geneva, announced Wednesday from its head office in California that it expects some 27,000 employees, about 8 percent of its global workforce “to exit the company” by the end of 2014. Details about where the job cuts will take place have not [...]

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Yahoo! in Rolle reported to be laying off up to 2 dozen

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:47:03 +0000

GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The young Yahoo! firm in Rolle, which will move into its specially-built offices in June, is reported by RTS, Swiss public broadcasting, to be laying off “one or two dozen” workers. RTS cites the city manager of Rolle; the company itself confirmed that it has alerted the town to planned layoffs, but [...]

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Novartis 2,000 job cuts in US result of patent ending, new drug demand fall

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:48:05 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BASEL, SWITZERLAND – Novartis will be cutting close to 2,000 jobs in the US, in New Jersey, as the result of an expected fall in demand for a relatively new medicine and the expiry of the patent for another, the company announced Friday 13 January in Basel. The sales force will lose 1,630 jobs and [...]

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Cisco rumoured to be slashing up to 10,000 jobs

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 07:52:17 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Cisco, which has three Swiss offices, including one in Rolle in canton Vaud, was busy presenting its latest products at Cisco Live in Las Vegas, Nevada Wednesday 13 July while the business rumour mill was grinding out stories about expected layoffs that could be as high as 10,000, according to Bloomberg Monday, [...]

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Cuba to shed 500,000 state employees

Sean Ecker — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 06:43:11 +0000

GenevaLunch.com The Cuban government will lay off half a million state employees over the next six months, the confederation of trade unions announced 13 September in the official newspaper, Granma. The measure is being taken in order to improve efficiency in the state sector, which employs about 5 million people. The government hopes to find jobs [...]

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Pfizer lays off 6,000 in major restructuring

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 19 May 2010 06:10:19 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Drug company Pfizer, in what it describes as a major restructuring, will lay off some 6,000 workers worldwide. Ireland’s Pfizer operations will cut 785 jobs. The news comes as 1,200 people marched in Dublin to demand a right-to-work programme, just as the European Commission told Ireland it can expect to be asked to make more [...]

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Metalor closing watch, gold production

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:21:33 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Neuchatel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Metalor, Neuchatel-based international company in precious metals and gold, will be laying off 110 people as it closes its watches and jewelry division. The company says it failed to find a buyer after it was strongly affected by the combination of a weak watch industry in 2009 plus the watch industry [...]

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Swiss newspaper prices go up

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:07:25 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The cost of subscribing to a Swiss daily newspaper will rise in 2010, between 1 and 11 percent, to keep in step with increased costs and lower advertising revenues. The rise is even greater in reality in some cases such as the NZZ, when a mid-2009 increase is taken into account, [...]

CFF to cut back 300-350 jobs in 2010

Sean Ecker — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:26:22 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Switzerland’s national railway company CFF plans to cut between 300-350 administrative jobs in the infrastructure division, its spokesperson Reto Kormann said 20 November. It hopes to save CHF60 million a year. The company will not lay off anyone: the jobs will be eliminated by attrition and internal reassignment. Links to other [...]

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Le Matin staff turn out to support photographers as layoffs loom

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:14:33 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Staff at Le Matin protested in front of the Edipresse tower in Lausanne Tuesday in solidarity with photographers at the newspaper, particularly hard hit by the layoffs that the company is planning. Edipresse is the largest private media company in French-speaking Switzerland. It announced 9 October that it would lay off [...]

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