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Union fears IBM job cuts could hit UK first
News Amicus, which has more than one million members, said that it is cheaper and easier for IBM to make redundancies in the UK than anywhere else in Europe. Britain's second-largest trade union fears that UK workers at IBM will be the first to be axed...
[May 5, 2005, 13:50]
Acorn fights back with reduced losses
News The farming out of its education business to Xemplar, the joint venture company with Apple, has accounted for the reduction in turnover, while staff redundancies made at the end of 1995 and a re-location to "less luxurious premises", according to...
[March 7, 1997, 15:32]
Intel to remove up to 300 jobs in Ireland
Blog Comment I've also posted details on the new wave of Legal and General redundancies ~ 450 jobs. tfg9308@googlemail.com Apologies, but we've been busy trying to get some legal advice. The final announcement on individuals has now been moved to the end of...
[March 1, 2009, 19:57]
IBM deal averts strike action in Bradford
News But the council has now promised staff that there will be no compulsory redundancies and they will only transfer to the supplier on a voluntary basis. Bradford Council has signed a contract with IBM to deliver its IT transformation programme after...
[July 4, 2005, 16:55]
Five years ago: Acorn fights back with reduced losses
News The farming out of its education business to Xemplar, the joint venture company with Apple, has accounted for the reduction in turnover, while staff redundancies made at the end of 1995 and a re-location to "less luxurious premises", according to...
[March 8, 2002, 6:01]
AltaVista job cuts won't hit UK
News AltaVista currently employs 900 workers all of whom were notified of the impending redundancies at a company-wide meeting Monday. Struggling Web portal AltaVista will announce lay offs Friday in an effort to revitalise the company.
[September 15, 2000, 12:36]
Reuters reaches £500m outsourcing deal
News Reuters said there will be no redundancies. Reuters is aiming to slash IT service delivery costs by a quarter through a £500m outsourcing deal with Fujitsu Services to roll out a standardised IT platform across its global operations.
[August 16, 2007, 17:24]
Job-hunting: Organisation is crucial
News His company was hit hard by the recession and after three rounds of redundancies, his entire department was axed. Six weeks ago, Paul (not his real name) was made redundant from a senior position in a global IT firm.
[August 29, 2002, 17:26]
No spoonful of sugar for Cable & Wireless staff
Talkback Bad news: - "Mass redundancies and contract terminations" In a single memo in "David Brent" style has metaphorically assigned his staff and clients to Death Row, but left them with the keys to the prison and given them a 6 month head start, before...
[March 2, 2006, 12:28]
Internet ad slump forces Marketwatch to slash jobs
News The company blamed the redundancies on the difficult economic climate as well as a slowdown in advertising revenue. The decline in Internet advertising revenue forced online financial news company Marketwatch to announce last week it was laying off...
[June 4, 2001, 17:00]
News Burst: QXL to axe 100 staff after raising £30m
News The planned redundancies are part of an effort to reduce overhead costs in order to move the company towards profitability earlier than expected. Online auction firm QXL (quote: QXL) confirmed Thursday that it has successfully completed a £30m...
[December 1, 2000, 12:15]
QXL denies restructuring reports after raising £30m
News The reported redundancies were thought to be part of an effort to reduce overhead costs in order to move the company towards profitability earlier than expected. Online auction firm QXL (quote: QXL) confirmed Thursday that it had successfully...
[December 1, 2000, 15:27]
WorldCom job losses hit the UK
News WorldCom has confirmed that the redundancies are part of a move to integrate the UUNet brand into WorldCom's other operations. The UK could bear the brunt of layoffs announced yesterday by US Internet service provider Worldcom, according to sources.
[May 3, 2001, 10:29]
BSA figures do not add up
Talkback Page 5 of the study makes it explicitly clear that while we originally identified 2,560 patent assignees, the true list, if given time to eliminate redundancies and all non-SMEs, probably totals in the range of 2,000 to 2,200 unique assignees.
[July 1, 2005, 17:42]
Drinks are on LogicaCMG
News A spokeswoman for LogicaCMG said no redundancies are planned. LogicaCMG has won a five-year, €70m outsourcing contract from Belgium-based brewery giant InBev to manage all the company's applications across eight European territories.
[June 27, 2006, 16:25]
HP cuts 1,000 UK jobs
News HP said on Tuesday afternoon it did not know how many of the redundancies would be compulsory. HP is to cut just under 1,000 jobs in the UK over the next year as part of its global restructuring programme.
[September 13, 2005, 18:30]
Union wades into offshoring row
Talkback With certain widespread compulsary redundancies with the IT department they are know looking at back-office processes to follow suit. My employer Experian are about to announce that they are outsourcing their internal IT development and support...
[March 25, 2004, 10:14]
Lloyds to chop hundreds of IT jobs
News Since Lloyds TSB acquired HBOS at the beginning of the year, the business has been going through each department making redundancies as it consolidates its operations. The Lloyds Banking Group has confirmed that hundreds of IT roles will be axed by...
[July 17, 2009, 16:45]
Symantec releases public Norton 2009 betas
News Symantec has achieved this, in part, by reducing a number of redundancies introduced over the years. On Monday, Symantec opened two of its Norton 2009 products to public beta. Both Norton Internet Security 2009 and Norton AntiVirus 2009 feature new...
[July 16, 2008, 10:27]
Sarbanes-Oxley and the IT Organization: A Survival Guide
White Papers They provide opportunities for improving processes and reducing costs, redundancies, complexity and waste. For CIOs and other IT professionals, taking a "Wait and see" attitude about Sarbanes-Oxley compliance is no longer an option.
[September 25, 2009, 2:07]
