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Tech jobs at risk in HSBC redundancies
News More than 100 IT workers could lose their jobs in HSBC's latest round of proposed redundancies. The redundancies follow a separate round of cuts last September which saw 1,100 staff — among them IT workers — lose their jobs.
[March 26, 2009, 16:14]
AOL UK redundancies could prompt strike
News Journalists working at AOL UK may strike following the announcement of a wave of redundancies at the company. People are upset" that the legally required 90-day consultation period since the redundancies were announced in September will be ending...
[December 15, 2006, 11:31]
Apple boss paves way for redundancies
News Amelio confirmed the widely expected announcement that Apple will lay off a "significant" number of staff later this week but didn't discuss other restructuring plans for the company. Several reports suggest that the sale of the Newton PDA division...
[March 13, 1997, 12:05]
EDS hints at broader redundancies
News Electronic Data Systems is hinting that it may trim its work force more deeply than it announced in June. The computer services company said in June that it would cut about 2 percent of its employees, which translates to laying off about 2,700...
[August 27, 2003, 9:20]
IAC Accounting Data Model: Eliminating Redundancies for a Consistent Accounting System
White Papers Accounting is the heart of all Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP). While this metaphor reminds one that accounting is the center all business information; it is also misleading. Accounting is totally dependent on the subsystems -auxiliary...
[October 25, 2005, 3:00]
600 redundancies from Ionica fallout
News The final chapter in the tale of the company's downfall closed last week when Ionica's board called in the administrators after deciding that nothing more could be done. Ionica provide fixed telephony services for residential and small business...
[November 3, 1998, 14:58]
Intel to remove up to 300 jobs in Ireland
Blog Comment I write to inform you of the impending redundancies recently announced this month by Tata Consultancy Services following the controversial outsourcing and transfer under TUPE of Legal and General IT staff last year to TCS.
[February 19, 2009, 23:24]
Sony Ericsson to lay off 2,000 more workers
News The redundancies, announced on Friday, are in addition to the 2,000 job cuts the handset maker outlined in July. It did not give a business-unit and geographical breakdown of the 2,000 redundancies. Sony Ericsson plans to lay off a further 2,000...
[April 17, 2009, 14:19]
Sun confirms 1,300 layoffs
News Sun has laid off 1,300 workers, part of a planned sequence of redundancies first revealed in November 2008 when the company announced it was intending to shed 6,000 people, or 14-18 percent of its workforce.
[January 23, 2009, 16:14]
XML Schema Refinement Through Redundancy Detection and Normalization
White Papers Under such circumstances, discovering XML data redundancies from the data itself becomes necessary and is an integral part of the schema refinement (or re-design) process. This paper presents the design and implementation of the first system...
[December 24, 2008, 0:00]
Troubled Marconi trims yet more jobs
News Marconi, which has cut half its workforce in the last two years to a current level of 8,000, is to cut another 1,000, concentrating this latest round of redundancies in Liverpool and Coventry. He added that the troubled telecoms group is hoping to...
[August 9, 2002, 11:27]
Virgin Media to cut 2,200 jobs
News In a Tuesday statement, the company said the redundancies would be carried out by 2012, with the majority taking place within the next two years. No breakdown has yet been provided as to where in the company the redundancies will occur, as...
[November 11, 2008, 15:17]
Shell agrees $4bn IT outsourcing deal
News About 2,960 Shell IT staff and contractors are expected to be transferred under the deal with AT&T, EDS and T-Systems, with Shell saying there will be "20-30 redundancies at worst". Our goal is to make redundancies zero, there is a significant...
[April 1, 2008, 10:19]
Brocade completes McData merger and cuts jobs
News These redundancies, which may be followed by further cuts, could scupper any hopes Brocade held of enjoying a more settled period after six months of turmoil. Brocade couldn't rule out making further redundancies, outside its McData operations.
[January 31, 2007, 15:14]
BT restructuring hits profits
News The £450m programme has resulted in a series of voluntary redundancies, largely aimed at eliminating duplication of roles. A spokesperson for Connect, the telecommunication workers' union, told ZDNet.co.uk on Wednesday that the union was content...
[November 8, 2007, 10:45]
400 IT jobs to go at Barclays
News Barclays said it will try to minimise compulsory redundancies among the affected GISD staff: "We will, of course, take all possible measures to mitigate compulsory redundancies through releasing contractors, closing vacancies and opening voluntary...
[January 7, 2009, 16:45]
Conceptual Model Based Normalization of XML
White Papers They show that they can not usually store the data directly in this representation because it can contain redundancies. To design an optimal database schema they therefore need to locate these redundancies and eliminate them.
[November 25, 2008, 23:00]
Vodafone cuts 500 UK jobs
News The rest of the redundancies will take place "across all levels and across the country". In a statement, the communications workers' union Connect said it would be urging Vodafone to explore retraining and redeployment options, and called for any...
[February 24, 2009, 11:13]
650 UK jobs go in Alcatel cutbacks
News Staff at Alcatel's operations at Greenwich in London will be hit by the redundancies. So far this year it has announced a total of 20,000 redundancies. French telecom equipment firm Alcatel announced late on Wednesday that over 3,000 staff would be...
[October 4, 2001, 16:38]
Barclays to offshore 1,800 IT jobs
News But Unite warned of higher levels of redundancies in the following years, as many contractor posts will have already been filled by redeployments. Keith Brookes, national secretary for Barclays at Unite, said: "We can avoid heavy duty compulsory...
[July 15, 2008, 9:27]
