In a bid to ease the mounting tension emerging from workers, United Continental Holdings Inc has suspended the outsourcing of jobs at the airport. The workers of United Continental expressed their concerns about measures of the company for job cuts. United already slashed 1,100 jobs early this year citing reasons for cost control. Since then, it's been involved in hiring outsourcing staff as part of cutting down costs and existing regular employees. The airline has assured employees that there wouldn't be outsourcing until 2017.
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Al Jazeera to Cut 500 Jobs Worldwide as Qatar Continues to Suffer From Slumping Oil Prices
Qatari media network Al Jazeera is announcing its plan to cut 50 jobs as a part of an optimization initiative. As a partly state-funded company, Al Jazeera is impacted by the slump in oil prices, which is the country’s main sector.
Credit Suisse CEO Will Cut More Jobs As Quarterly Loss is Expected
CEO Tidjane Thiam determine to pursue further restructuring in Credit Suisse. The Swiss bank will cut more 2,000 jobs and cut more of its business.
LivingSocial Cuts Jobs By 50% While Focusing On Card Linking Discount Business
LivingSocial, partly owned by Amazon, has represented itself as a foe in ecommerce business. Gautam Thakar, the new CEO has gone through a massive workforce reduction since his inception 18 months back. Beside job cuts, Thakar has transformed its business focus from daily deals to card linked discount business which is now being tested in three US cities and seems to be popular.
Schlumberger reports Q4 net loss of $1 billion, cuts 10,000 more jobs
Schlumberger Ltd, on Thursday, reported a net loss of $1 billion for the fourth quarter and also said that it has axed 10,000 additional employees, as an effort to adjust its resource and cost base.
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Alcatel-Lucent would push a cost cutting drive to save EUR1 billion by 2015 through cutting jobs by 1000, reported Les Echos and Le Figaro newpapers on their websites.
Siemens planned to shed 15000 jobs over the next year as a part of its cost cutting program, said a spokesman last Sunday.
The restructuring of the 3i Group Plc continues, with more job cuts in the offing. (Photo : Reuters)The image is the corporate logo of the 3i Group. 3i Group Plc, the buyout firm from Britain, is in the midst of carrying out a restructuring plan.
As a result of Australian rules, Dart Energy is forcing to pull out from coal seam gas project in Australia.
3i management under fire for current dismal performance of the company. 3i, after the purchase of shares that increased Richard Bramson's stake in the private equity group, is under fire for the current strategy undertaken to bring it out of the doldrums.
