#Job Cuts

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. and Radio-Canada will eliminate about 600 jobs and an additional 200 vacancies will go unfilled as it contends with a $125 million budget shortfall. The public broadcaster said Monday that CBC and Radio-Canada will each cut about 250 jobs, with the balance of the layoffs coming from corporate divisions such as technology and infrastructure. Some of the cuts will be made immediately while others will be carried out over the next 12 months.

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Continental închide patru fabrici în Germania și reduce personalul la alte două unități

Divizia ContiTech a grupului Continental va închide patru fabrici din Germania și va reduce activitatea la alte două, afectând un total de 580 de angajați. Această măsură face parte dintr-un plan de restructurare al companiei, care vizează economisirea a 400 de milioane de euro anual începând din 2025. Fabrici închise și relocări 📌 Uzinele care se închid: Bad…

[bangavumi]

Trump Offers Federal Employees Eight Months' Pay to Resign Amid Government Restructuring

Trump Offers Federal Employees Eight Months’ Pay to Resign Amid Government Restructuring The White House expects 200,000 employees to accept severance deals as part of a broader federal downsizing plan. Trump Offers Federal Employees Eight Months’ Pay to Resign Amid Government Restructuring President Donald Trump has introduced a voluntary buyout program for federal employees, aiming to reduce…

[towerblockers]

Post Office Slashes Jobs to Fund Sub-Postmasters: A Bitter Pill for Workers

Oh, what a lovely day for the Post Office! They’ve just announced a grand new plan, haven’t they? The kind that sounds like it’s straight out of a fairy tale – if you’re a sub-postmaster, that is. But for the hundreds of employees facing the chop, it’s more like a horror story penned by someone who’s never quite understood that jobs are, you know, how people pay for things like food and…

[theborderlessworld]

British Columbians Concerned About Backlogs After Canadian Immigration Job Cuts

Doris Tsang was initially told her permanent residency (PR) application would take up to 18 months to process. Over three years later, she still hasn't heard back.

Without the promise of PR, her business and her life in Vancouver are in limbo.

And she is even more concerned following Canada's announcement earlier this week that the immigration department would be cutting roughly 3,300 jobs over three years.

"This news is really discouraging," said Tsang.

The job cuts at Immigration, Referees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) amount to about a quarter of its workforce.

In a statement to CBC, IRCC said the department has expanded rapidly in recent years to address global crises like the pandemic and that growth relied on temporary funding.

Tsang applied for permanent resident status when she moved to Canada in 2021 under the Start-up Visa program for immigrant entrepreneurs.

She has been running a food business in Vancouver ever since.

"It seems like I'm just waiting, waiting, and waiting, without an end," said Tsang from the shared kitchen space she uses.

A former chef and cooking teacher in Hong Kong, her business, DBay Kitchen and Food, sells pre-packaged Chinese food.

Tsang said she would like to grow her business, getting its own kitchen and hiring more staff. But she can't do that until she has the certainty of PR.

"This is very hard for us to live here, treat this as home, but with no permanent status."

She says her business is expanding and grew 30 per cent in the last year.

"It seems that the government is not recognizing us … It seems that I just work for nothing. It's really hard," she said.

Growing wait times Tsang is not alone.

Vancouver-based Canadian immigration lawyer Zool Suleman says the news was upsetting for many of his clients, who were already facing long wait times for a decision.

"Clients are actually extremely anxious. They don't know how to plan their lives, and this is going to result in more uncertainty," said Suleman.

He says cuts to the IRCC will further exacerbate processing times. Suleman said the backlog for some immigration and visa categories is in the hundreds of thousands of cases.

"I think, first of all, you will have slower decision-making," said Suleman.

"Secondly, you will have bad decision-making because decisions are hurried and rushed when you have fewer people."

Reduced immigration In October, the government also announced reduced immigration levels over the next three years, intending to stabilize population growth and relieve pressure on the housing market.

Rubina Boucher, president of the Canada Employment and Immigration Union, which represents IRCC workers, says cuts to the department have repercussions beyond the employees directly affected.

She says it means less capacity to attract talent from across the world, including health-care professionals, skilled tradespeople, and entrepreneurs like Tsang.

"The consequences of these cuts are definitely far-reaching," said Boucher.

"We're deeply concerned about the impact and what it will mean to families and businesses."

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/british-columbians-concerned-about-immigration-backlogs-1.7439544

[theeodialogs]

Volkswagen CEO Says 35,000 German Job Cuts Are ‘Good News’

Volkswagen’s deal with workers’ representatives contemplates 35,000 jobs in future Germany-“is good news”, said the company CEO on Sunday.

It is one of the biggest adjustments planned in Volkswagen’s German operations capacity reductions under the last-minute agreement between the manufacturer’s workers.

The agreement followed months of strife with employees, arising from the car manufacturer’s indication for the very first time in its 87-year history that it might close plants in Germany, accompanied by a plan of wage cuts, that led more than 100,000 Volkswagen workers to strike at the company’s German plants early December.

“This agreement is good news for Volkswagen,” Volkswagen Group CEO Oliver Blume told Frankfurter Allgemeine in an interview on Sunday. Read more

[entrepreneurkiawaz]

Volkswagen CEO Announces Job Cuts, Plant Closures, and Restructuring in 3-4 Years

Volkswagen CEO, Thomas Schaefer, stated on Saturday that the automaker has no choice but to implement job cuts and plant closures in order to achieve €4 billion in cost reductions.

In an interview with Welt am Sonntag, Schaefer emphasized that the company must find comprehensive solutions to address its challenges. “Any solution must reduce both overcapacity and costs. We cannot apply a temporary fix and continue as is, as it would eventually have serious repercussions,” he said, according to Reuters.

These remarks come amid an intensifying dispute with workers, which is expected to worsen the situation. Workers have threatened to strike in December and are urging the company to find solutions that avoid factory closures and major job cuts, particularly in ongoing negotiations regarding pay and capacity.

Schaefer noted that most of the layoffs could be managed through normal attrition and early retirement. Read more

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McKinsey in particular drove home the message that head office had to be further pared back, with the head-office staff of 1,100 cut by up to 60 per cent, and that would entail drastic reductions in the economics and strategy units.

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[my-life-in-stars]

Today has been a shitshow, in the purest form.

The two remaining members of my team got laid off. I'm the freaking "project manager," but how am I supposed to do everything without a team?? Like, these guys were basically my left and right arms for keeping things running, a core unit.

No warning. No time to prepare or figure out solutions or do a hand off. One guy just sent an SOS message letting us know he was being laid off, and the next thing I learn is that guy 2 is gone too.

And I'm left to clean up the mess. The real kicker? Guy 2's wife is supposed to give birth any day now.

Like, these are people's lives. And I know they'll be fine, but when people say companies don't have loyalty anymore, this is what they're talking about.

I've just gone through all the emotions today. Rage. Sadness. Frustration. Numbness. Back to being pissed off lol.

I like my job reasonably well most days, but this sucks so hard.

[ujusttry]

Google Layoffs Employees In AI Division Amidst Leadership Changes

Google's AI division faces a shakeup with layoffs. Discover the reasons, the impact on Fitbit execs, and the ripple effect in the evolving tech industry landscape of 2024.

Introduction: Google Layoffs Employees The aim of discussing “Google Layoffs Employees” is to provide a concise yet thorough understanding of recent workforce reductions at Google, particularly within its AI division. The article intends to explore the reasons behind the layoffs, highlight the broader context of reorganization, and examine the implications for both Google and the tech…

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Volkswagen ajunge la un acord cu sindicatele pentru reducerea personalului, fără închideri de fabrici

Volkswagen a ajuns la un acord semnificativ cu sindicatele, după negocieri intense care au durat 70 de ore, cel mai lung astfel de proces din istoria companiei. Acordul prevede reduceri considerabile de personal, dar evită închiderea unor fabrici și tăieri de salarii. Reducerea personalului și restructurarea operațiunilor Compania germană a convenit să reducă aproximativ 35.000 de locuri de…

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Nokia Announces Ambitious Cost-Cutting Plan with Job Cuts and Strategic Focus

Finnish telecommunications giant Nokia is set to implement a significant cost-cutting measure, targeting the reduction of 9,000 to 14,000 jobs by the end of 2026. The move comes as Nokia reported a 20% decline in sales during the period between July and September, attributing the downturn to sluggish demand for 5G equipment in markets like North America. With a current global workforce of 86,000…

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I made @wolfythewitch 's fox Bill design out of polymer clay

It's pretty thin (so thin I'm afraid it'll snap in half anytime I lift it)

Front and back side: