Another round of layoffs was announced on Wednesday, adding to the gloom over rising unemployment.
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Companies from a range of sectors are hemorrhaging jobs as the recession worsens.
UBS became the latest victims of the weakening economy, announcing it would cut a further 8,000 jobs.
Job losses in the U.S. private sector accelerated in March, more than economists' expectations, according to a report by ADP Employer Services Wednesday.
Private employers cut jobs by a record 742,000 in March versus a 706,000 revised cut in February that was originally reported at 697,000 jobs, said ADP, which has been carrying out the survey since 2001.
The big drop foreshadows a huge decline in the non-farm payroll reading in the government's employment report that will be released on Friday, some analysts said.
Here is a rundown of corporate job cuts announced so far:
- UBS , the world's largest wealth manager in terms of assets, would cut a further 8,000 jobsand write down at least another $2 billion on illiquid assets.
- Johnson Controls , the third-biggest auto parts supplier in North America, said it had completed two-thirds of its restructuring announced at the end of 2008, which included shutting 21 plants and reducing 9,300 jobs, or 7 percent of its global workforce.
- Walt Disney has cut an undisclosed number of workers at its domestic parks this month, in a previously announced plan to consolidate behind-the-scenes operations for Walt Disney World in Florida and Disneyland in California, a spokesman said. Local media in Florida, tipped off by laid-off workers, have reported cuts as deep as 450 jobs at the two locations.
- Google is cutting its sales and marketing team by roughly 200 employees, saying it had over-invested in certain parts of the company.
- IBM announced it will lay off a large number of U.S. employees in its global-businesses services unit and many of the positions will be transferred to IBM employees in India, according to the Wall Street Journal. The number of jobs that will be affected was not reported.
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- Constellation Brands said it plans to cut about 5 percent of its global workforce, or roughly 400 jobs, and warned that profit for its just-ended fiscal year would be lower than expected, sending shares down 4 percent.
- Medical products maker Hospirasaid it expects to cut about 10 percent of its workforce, or 1,400 jobs, as part of a plan to reduce costs and become more efficient.
—Sources: AP, Reuters, with CNBC.com staff.
- Gannett will force employees to take a new round of furloughs in April, May and June to save money as newspaper advertising revenue slides, according to a memo obtained by Reuters.
- HSBCis cutting about 1,200 jobs in Britain, saying the operating environment for the battered banking industry was "extremely challenging" and would remain so for some time. A union representing HSBC staff, said the changes would result in 2,900 jobs being lost.
- Packaging maker MeadWestvaco said it would close two plants to cut costs, eliminating 278 hourly and salaried jobs.
- Graco says it will cut an additional 180 jobs, or 8 percent of its global work force, to reflect a drop in demand for its fluid handling systems and components. The Minneapolis-based company previously eliminated 150 jobs in December.
- Caterpillar , the world's largest maker of construction and mining equipment, notified an additional 2,454 workers in three states that they were losing their jobs as the company continues to try to bring production in line with plummeting demand.
- Nokia will slash 1,700 jobs globallyover the coming few months because of falling demand, the world's top cell phone maker said.
- Oil refiner Sunoco said it will cut 750 jobs, about 20 percent of its workforce, to reduce costs in the face of weak demand for gasoline and diesel fuel.
- National Semiconductor said it will cut 26 percent of its global workforce, or 1,725 jobs, as the chipmaker reported sharply lower quarterly profits and revenue.
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- United Technologies , whose products range from elevators to jet engines, plans to cut 11,600 jobsas it adapts to an economy that has grown worse than it expected just three months ago.
- McClatchywill slash 1,600 jobs, or about 15 percent of its workforce, in one of the more dramatic cuts by a U.S. newspaper publisher as it struggles with plunging advertising sales.
—Sources: AP, Reuters, with CNBC.com staff.
- The court-appointed lawyer overseeing the assets and operations of Texas billionaire Allen Stanford's companies told 1,000 U.S. employees that their jobs have been terminated.
- General Dynamics said it will lay off 1,200 workersdue partly to plummeting sales of business and personal jets that forced it to cut production.
- Northrop Grumman , the Pentagon's No. 3 supplier by sales, is cutting up to 750 jobs, mainly administrative positions in Southern California, even as it plans to hire up to 850 engineers and technicians for work on advanced weapons in the area.
- Tyco Electronics announced another round of layoffs, saying it plans to eliminate 20,000 jobs by Septemberas it seeks to weather the economic downturn. The cuts amount to 20 percent of Tyco's total work force.
- Marvell Technology plans to cut 15 percent of its workforce, or 850 jobs, as the diversified chipmaker grapples with the global economic downturn.
- Adecco , the world's largest staffing company, painted a bleak outlook for 2009 and said it would slash more jobs after posting a surprise fourth-quarter loss as the economic slump bites, hitting shares.
- Warren Buffett's reduced staffing last year in half of its nearly 80 operating units, and said more job cuts were comingin an economy unlikely to recover before 2010. Many of the deepest cuts came in businesses tied closely to the housing market. Clayton Homes, a manufacturing housing unit, eliminated 2,290 jobs, or 16 percent, to end the year with 11,998 workers. Carpeting maker Shaw Industries shed 1,900 jobs, or 6.2 percent, to end with 28,974 workers.
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- Home Shopping Network operator HSN cut about 250 jobs during the fourth quarter, and cancelled merit increases for 2009 to contain costs.
- ValeInco, the nickel mining and processing division of Brazil's Companhia Vale do Rio Doce , said it will eliminate about 900 full-time jobsin the face of slumping prices.
- HSBC
said it would shut most of its U.S. consumer lending business, cutting 6,100 jobs, but that it was ready for acquisitions in its traditional stronghold of Asia where many banks are pulling out to focus on their core markets.
—Sources: AP, Reuters, with CNBC.com staff.