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KPMG: 101 staff sacked today from its Sydney and Melbourne offices in previously-unannounced purge
CSR: Building products and sugar maker axed 539 jobs and cut its full year profit guidance by up to 20%
Virgin Blue: Will axe up to 400 jobs after the airline decided to ground five aircraft. Management is also said to be trying to find a way of sacking 50 pilots, despite reports last week suggesting redundancies will be limited. Qantas workers could also be in the firing line as the industry spruiks unsustainable fares to keep passengers in the air.
Macquarie Bank: The "Millionaire's Factory" sacked around 1000 staff last year and is cutting another 100 employees.
Norilsk: World's biggest nickel producer has suspended production in Western Australia, resulting in 330 redundancies
Rio Tinto: 30 workers laid off from the Bell Bay aluminum smelter in Tasmania
Onesteel: More job losses on top of the 800 lost since November as output slashed by 300,000 tonnes
The resources sector: Job losses since the end of the commodities boom are said to have reached 9,500
Brambles: 750 job cuts world wide as millions of patented CHEP pallets lie idle in storage
Vodafone: Hundreds of jobs to be excised nationally after last week's merger with Hutchison Telecoms. The combined group is weighed down by 3,700 employees and 400 stores with the "3" brand set to be phased out. The merged firm also has 2 legal counsel, one of which is John Howard's daughter Melanie, leading to claims she could be about to quit and enter the Liberal pre-selection race for Bennelong.
PaperlinX: Future of 400 workers at Burnie and Wesley Vale plants under a cloud as the company conducts a review of the plants left out of Monday’s sale of its subsidiary Australian Paper to the Japanese.
Nyrstar: 250 contractors at Hobart zinc smelter told not to show up for work with management aiming to cut production by 30%
Incat: Tasmanian boat builder reduced casual workforce by 100 late last year, joining rival Riviera in cutting staff as luxury purchases fall off the consumer radar
Boom Logistics: Melbourne crane business takes 18 cranes out of service, with 31 jobs to go
Holden: "Job-reduction target" will impact on 2000 of Holden’s 6500 employees and is in addition to 530 job losses due by July, when the company shuts down its four-cylinder engine plant in Victoria. Parent General Motors will reduce its worldwide workforce to 63,000.
Foster's: More than 300 jobs lost in an attempt to save $100 million as wine brands and vineyards ditched
Drivetrain Systems International: Albury-based car parts manufacturer has stood down 400 workers without pay after the company entered receivership. The always-tenuous local car parts sector is awash with sackings as the pressures of global competition weigh.
GHD: Engineering and architectural firm cuts 35 jobs from its offices in regional Victoria, and another 25 from the Melbourne office
Hyder Consulting: Sydney Harbour Bridge engineering consultants to axe 440 jobs in Australian and the UK
Clough: Engineering contractor axing about 75 jobs in its Perth and Bangkok operations
Challenger: Financial services firm set to announce more sackings after hiving off 174 positions, or 18% of its workforce last year
PMP Limited: Printer slashes 32 out of 112 jobs from its Wacol operation near Brisbane with 44 to go from its Adelaide plant
Quest Community Newspapers: News Ltd suburban subsidiary to sack 5 staff at Bowen Hills and Stafford sites in Queensland.
The Rudd Government: Linday Tanner's revitalised public service razor gang is shaping up to challenge Max “the axe” Moore-Wilton’s notorious rampage in the late 1990s. Public service flab in all departments to be closely examined, with Kevin Rudd on record as claiming he wants to take a "meat-axe" to the APS. Ministerial advisers look to be exempt for Tanner's scapel, however.
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-new...ands-axes-1850-aussie-jobs-20090225-8h81.html
Pacific Brands axes 1,850 Aussie jobs
Yet another blow to manufacturing sector in Aus. Where's the Rudd bailout for the industry that employs 10% of our country?
You need to apply the official RuddBank business stress-test criteria first.
(1) Are they a big bank?
(2) Are they a big auto manufacturer?
If answer to either one or both of the above is negative, no bailout funding will be forthcoming.
Simple, really.
Blake Dawson Waldron: Around 100 or more lawyers and support staff to be given their marching orders today, confirming earlier reports.
Pacific Brands: 1850 blue collar workers told their time is up, despite former CEO Paul Moore receiving pay outs totaling $17 million when the firm re-listed on the ASX in 2004 following a disastrous private equity buyout.
Lonely Planet: 50 jobs, or 10% of its workforce, hived off, mostly from its online division, as revealed by Crikey yesterday. While previous layoffs have been confined to peripheral support staff, insiders say a number of loyal long-termers were given their marching orders yesterday.
ACP: Over 30 staff have been cut from ACP's women's titles, ahead of a major restructure of its sales force, according to B&T.
APN News & Media: 600 jobs slashed over the past three years.
GHD: The engineering firm has cut staff by 600 across its Australian operations, including 100 staff in Sydney, 100 in Melbourne and close to 100 in Brisbane.
EDS Australia: Close to 500 staff cuts since November with another 400 names being pulled from the hat for execution in the next month or so.
Australian Taxation Office: 143 workers at its Melbourne office have had their contracts terminated to cut costs to add to 133 regionally-based jobs already eliminated.
Telstra: Departing CEO Sol Trujillo's legacy set to live on with plans to remove 4000 permanent employees and 10,000 contractors still on the drawing board. Previously, the company had created a blueprint to lay off 12,000 staff by 2012.
Melba Industries: 170 jobs on the chopping block with the essential services clothing contractor placed in administration
Melbourne's Southern Star Observation Wheel: 90 staff offered packages after the $100 million Docklands white elephant was shutdown indefinitely after it buckled in Melbourne's heat wave.
Hassell: Architectural design and drafting firm Hassell has made 40 workers redundant out of a total workforce of about 200 in Sydney, according to a source.
Drivetrain Systems International: Stricken Albury-based car parts manufacturer sacked another 229 employees, after previously announcing 400 lay-offs. The remaining 167 workers are on temporary contracts.
National Foods: 10 full-time and part-time workers at the Timboon Farmhouse Cheese factory.
Codan: The Adelaide satellite equipment maker has cut 24 jobs in a tanking market.
Photon Group: The marketing services firm retrenches 129 people, or 5%, of its local workforce.
Fairfax: More job cuts mooted in Australia and New Zealand, with the old media company forced to tap the market today for fresh funds. Fairfax sacked 550 staff last year as part of its 'Business Improvement Program'.
BHP Billiton: Staff numbers reduced by 40% at its gleaming headquarters in Melbourne's Lonsdale Street. By the end of June, only 350 staff will remain, down from around 600 when the new HQ was built.
Anglo American: 1000 extra jobs to go across its global operations. The losses come in addition to 10,000 cuts announced previously in its platinum division.
WA resources sector: 10,000 more jobs to be lost over the next 18 months, according to BIS Schrapnel, to add to significant cut backs at BHP and Rio Tinto.
If we had CGT on Housing, No super and less OH&S we might not be in this mess.
Here, in alphabetical order, is the total toll to date sourced from a range of media reports and Crikey's tips box.
Have you or someone you know been sacked? Send your tales of job cut woe to boss@crikey.com.au with "sackwatch" in the subject field and we'll keep the list updated as a handy HR reference point.
AAMHatch: 11 staff reportedly sacked at the mining technology company.
ACP: Over 30 staff have been cut from ACP's women's titles, ahead of a major restructure of its sales force, according to B&T.
AMP: Had dismissed 300 staff by December last year.
Anglo American: 1000 extra jobs to go across its global operations. The losses come in addition to 10,000 cuts announced previously in its platinum division.
ANZ: 800 jobs lost is middle management with 100 NZ call centre jobs outsourced to India
APN News & Media: 600 jobs slashed over the past three years
Ausenco: 50 staff from their Perth office
Australian Taxation Office: 133 regionally-based jobs and 143 workers at its Melbourne office to cut costs
Axa Asia Pacific: 90 staff cuts announced in December
BDO Kendalls: 12 accountants let go after end-of-year performance reviews
BHP Billiton: 3400 locally and 6000 globally, with staff numbers reduced by 40% at its gleaming headquarters in Melbourne's Lonsdale Street.
Blake Dawson Waldron: Around 100 or more lawyers and support staff shown the door
BlueScope Steel: 40 redundancies with 330 contractors from Transfield Services on strike
Boart Longyear: 2000 jobs scrapped despite delivering a 92.3% rise in profit in the 12 months to 31 December
Boeing: 6% across-the-board cuts in its global workforce. The company has 3800 local employees and has already sacked 500 workers from a subsidiary.
Boom Logistics: Melbourne crane business has taken 18 cranes out of service, with 31 jobs lost
Brambles: 750 job cuts world-wide as millions of patented CHEP pallets lie idle in storage
Brookfield Multiplex: Staff sacked each month since August with around 250 white collar workers already dumped
Cadbury Schweppes: 330 staff gone, according to an AFR report.
CDE capital: Mining contractor has put off 30 staff at its McArthur River Mine
Challenger: Financial services firm set to announce more sackings after hiving off 174 positions, or 18% of its workforce last year
Citrix: 10% of global workforce retrenched. The software firm has 160 staff across Australia and New Zealand.
Clough: Engineering contractor has axed about 75 jobs in its Perth and Bangkok operations
Codan: The Adelaide satellite equipment maker has cut 24 jobs in a tanking market.
Compass Resources: 250 jobs at Browns copper, nickel and cobalt mine have been lost
Constellation Brands: World’s largest winemaker sacked 350 staff as wineries closed
Construction industry: 50,000 jobs in Queensland with thousands more nationally
Cook's Construction: Approx 500 people have been made redundant over the past 3 months from all over Australia.
Corrs Chambers Westgarth: 14 lawyers
CSR: 115 jobs at its Geelong and Laverton automotive glass plants as production halted
CSR: Building products and sugar maker axed 539 jobs and cut its full year profit guidance by up to 20%.
David Jones: 150 head office jobs cut alongside floor staff.
De Longhi: Household appliance maker said to be temporarily sacking 400 workers at its radiator unit.
Deacons: 15 property and finance lawyers
DLA Phillips Fox: 12 lawyers
Don's Smallgoods: 640 staff off-loaded
Drivetrain Systems International: Stricken Albury-based car parts manufacturer has sacked another 229 employees, after previously announcing 400 lay-offs. The remaining 167 workers are on temporary contracts.
EDS Australia: Close to 500 staff cuts since November with another 400 names being pulled from the hat for execution in the next month or so.
Electrolux: 44 jobs in Australia and New Zealand.
Electronic Arts: Local top-level management have been shown the door after the software firm's Canadian arm sacked 55 workers.
Fairfax: More job cuts mooted in Australia and New Zealand, with the old media company forced to tap the market today for fresh funds. Fairfax sacked 550 staff last year as part of its 'Business Improvement Program'.
Ford Credit Australia: 160 jobs as local operation pares back to bare-bone levels.
Ford: 350 workers from its Geelong and Broadmeadows plants.
Foster's: More than 300 jobs lost in an attempt to save $100 million as wine brands and vineyards ditched.
GBS Gold: 300 workers sacked after firm entered receivership.
GE Capital: Local interest-free finance and credit card specialist to cut 400 jobs.
GEMCO: BHP Billiton-owned miner has put off 200 contractors and a few direct employees.
GHD: The engineering firm has cut staff by 600 across its Australian operations, including 100 staff in Sydney, 100 in Melbourne and close to 100 in Brisbane.
Goodman Fielder: 400 staff set to go this year as bakeries close
Great Southern Limited: Albany-based agribusiness group has removed seven workers
Harvey Beef Abattoir: Western Australian's biggest beef processor is reviewing operations in light of the GFC with its chief executive already on the outer.
Harvey Norman: Five office supply stores shut and ten retail stores in the firing line with hundreds of jobs set to be lost. 45 jobs went when the Domayne store in Sydney's Campbelltown closed.
Hassell: Architectural design and drafting firm Hassell has made 40 workers redundant out of a total workforce of about 200 in Sydney, according to a source.
Holden: "Job-reduction target" will impact on 2000 of Holden's 6500 employees and is in addition to 530 job losses due by July, when the company shuts down its four-cylinder engine plant in Victoria. Parent General Motors will reduce its worldwide workforce to 63,000.
Hyder Consulting: Sydney Harbour Bridge engineering consultants to axe 440 jobs in Australian and the UK.
Incat: Tasmanian boat builder reduced casual workforce by 100 late last year, joining rival Riviera in cutting staff as luxury purchases fall off the consumer radar.
Incitec: Temporary job losses in the Moranbah community in Queensland as construction of new chemical plant delayed.
KPMG: 101 staff sacked from its Sydney and Melbourne offices in previously-unannounced purge.
Lend Lease: Property developer said it was slashing 1700 jobs worldwide and around 350 in Australia.
Linwar Securities: 50% ANZ-owned brokerage has retrenched 25% of its research department, or five workers.
Lonely Planet: 50 jobs, or 10% of its workforce, hived off, mostly from its online division, as revealed by Crikey.
Macarthur Coal: 180 jobs on the back of tumbling commodity prices
Macquarie Bank: The "Millionaire's Factory" sacked around 1000 staff last year and is set to cut another 100 employees.
Manufacturing sector: 42,000 jobs had been shed in the manufacturing sector in the past six to nine months, according to the Australian Industry Group.
Matilda Minerals: 12 full time workers on the Tiwi Islands
Melba Industries: 170 jobs on the chopping block with the essential services clothing contractor placed in administration
Melbourne's Southern Star Observation Wheel: 90 staff offered packages after the $100 million Docklands white elephant was shutdown indefinitely when it buckled in Melbourne's recent heatwave.
MLC: 120 jobs to be lost or changed.
Myer: Part-time hours repeatedly reduced by 20% with six full-timers sacked from the Geelong store.
National Australia Bank: 120 jobs in its wealth management division in Melbourne and Sydney.
National Foods: 10 full-time and part-time workers at the Timboon Farmhouse Cheese factory.
News Corporation: Confirmed it will lay off staff in Australia as part of a global cost-cutting plan. Crikey had previously reported that News job losses would hit 800 in Australia, a figure denied by local lieutenant John Hartigan.
Ninemsn: 5% of its staff or about 20 positions gone.
Nissan: 50 staff from its Victorian aluminum casting plant laid off.
Norilsk: World's biggest nickel producer has suspended production in Western Australia, resulting in 330 redundancies.
Nyrstar: 250 contractors at Hobart zinc smelter told not to show up for work with management aiming to cut production by 30%.
Onesteel: More job losses on top of the 800 lost since November as output slashed by 300,000 tonnes.
Orica: "Hundreds" globally but local toll yet to be confirmed.
OZ Minerals: 1200 local job losses at debt-ridden miner.
Pacific Brands: 1850 blue collar workers told their time is up, despite former CEO Paul Moore receiving pay outs totaling $17 million when the firm re-listed on the ASX in 2004 following a disastrous private equity buyout.
Panasonic: 15,000 jobs hived off worldwide with local losses possible.
PaperlinX: Future of 400 workers at Burnie and Wesley Vale plants under a cloud as the company conducts a review of the plants left out of Monday’s sale of its subsidiary Australian Paper to the Japanese.
Perpetual: 40 funds management roles gone.
Photon Group: The marketing services firm retrenches 129 people, or 5%, of its local workforce.
Pitcher Partners: 12 senior audit staff, although this was later denied by the firm.
PMP Limited: Printer slashes 32 out of 112 jobs from its Wacol operation near Brisbane with 44 to go from its Adelaide plant.
PriceWaterhouseCoopers: 170 staff ousted yesterday to add to 40 cuts last November.
Qantas: 40 call centre jobs to add to 1500 sackings last year.
Quest Community Newspapers: News Ltd suburban subsidiary to sack 5 staff at Bowen Hills and Stafford sites in Queensland.
Redbank Mines: 6 full time copper mine workers.
Rio Tinto: 14,000 globally with 600 jobs slashed from its Perth office.
Riviera: Only 650 staff remain at the boat builder, down from 1200 employees last year.
South Pacific Tyres: 600 workers gone from factory in Melbourne's north.
Suncorp: 1500 staff to go, according to internal memos.
Telstra: Departing CEO Sol Trujillo's legacy set to live on with plans to remove 4000 permanent employees and 10,000 contractors still on the drawing board. Previously, the company had created a blueprint to lay off 12,000 staff by 2012.
The resources sector: Job losses since the end of the commodities boom are said to have reached 9500.
The Rudd Government: Linday Tanner's revitalised public service razor gang is shaping up to challenge Max “the axe” Moore-Wilton’s notorious rampage in the late 1990s. Public service flab in all departments to be closely examined, with Kevin Rudd on record as claiming he wants to take a "meat-axe" to the APS. Ministerial advisers look to be exempt from Tanner's scapel, however.
The United States of America: Figures show the number of jobless had reached a 17-year high with unemployment topping 7.6% in January with almost 11.6 million Americans now out of work. See the following graph (courtesy of Peter Martin) to see the true extent of the damage:
Tourism industry: Two-thirds of tourism operators to cut their workforce as international visitors tail off, according to the Tourism & Transport Forum.
Virgin Blue: Will axe up to 400 jobs after the airline decided to ground five aircraft. Management is also said to be trying to find a way of sacking 50 pilots, despite reports last week suggesting redundancies will be limited.
Vodafone: Hundreds of jobs to be excised nationally after last week's merger with Hutchison Telecoms. The combined group is weighed down by 3,700 employees and 400 stores with the "3" brand set to be phased out. The merged firm also has 2 legal counsel, one of which is John Howard's daughter Melanie, leading to claims she could be about to quit and enter the Liberal pre-selection race for Bennelong.
WA resources sector: 10,000 more jobs to be lost over the next 18 months, according to BIS Schrapnel, to add to significant cut backs at BHP and Rio Tinto.
WA timber industry: Job losses and business closures expected after state government refused to extend bailout funds.
Westpac: 5000 jobs could be lost as part of the St George takeover.
Wizard Home Loans: 50 back-office staff to go from parent company GE Money in transition to new ownership under Aussie Home Loans.
Xstrata: 230 workers and production staff shed at its Queensland coking coal mines with 300 workers laid off temporarily from the McArthur River Mine.
American Express: Corporate travel staff are on edge after being told last week they will find out tomorrow whether they still have a job following a restructure at its Brisbane office.
Commonwealth Bank: Looking to sack 500 employees from a less profitable department, according to a tipster
Macquarie Bank: Set to announce mass redundancies this Thursday, to add to the 10,000 staff already laid off
Anglo Coal: 650 jobs in Queensland and New South Wales, including 470 contractor jobs, to go by the end of the month
Bosch: Car parts maker has announced it will cut 170 jobs at its Melbourne plant
Holden: Yet to reveal whether there will be any job losses in Australia, despite production being halted at its South Australian plants next month. Parent General Motors may be on its last legs.
Wesfarmers: 200 jobs gone from its Kmart head office, including a number of senior staff, according to a source.
Thiess: The CFMEU says 40 workers have been sacked Burton Downs Mine, west of Mackay, with tipsters claiming "a lot" of jobs were made redundant elsewhere within the firm in January
BP Australia: Around 100 last year from its corporate and regional retail sections, with rumours of more to come this year
Wattyl Group: Laid-off 23 frontline field sales people last week, taking the total for the past 4 months to about 100 people
Logica: IT company sacked 44 staff last November and at least 2 more since then.
Infosys Technologies: Tech firm's workforce cut by around 5%, or around 18 staff
Yahoo7: 10% of staff, or about 30 people already gone last with more cuts imminent
STW group: Marketing group has hived off 17 jobs across the company
Lowan Whole Foods: 27 jobs gone after Victorian plant in Nhill shut down
Bush’s Pet Foods: Victorian exporter has cut 60 jobs
Air Radiators: 30 jobs gone at its Geelong plant
Alchemia: Announced to the ASX last year that it was laying off 30 staff or 60% of its workforce.
Pioneer Electronics Australia: 15 jobs have already gone at Pioneer Electronics Australia after global decision to taken to scale back staff
Ingram Micro: Chip manufacturer sacked 16 staff , 2 weeks ago under pressure from its US parent
Figgins Holdings: 76 staff gone after 43 Shoobiz stores and four Evelyn Miles boutiques closed across Australia.
Grampians Wool Industries: 40 jobs lost at wool processing plant in rural Victoria
The resources sector: Mining companies have cut more than 10,000 jobs since June, says the Minerals Council of Australia
When yesterday's unemployment data lobbed mid-morning, online media outlets were set scrambling with the wholly unexpected news that the economy had added nearly 50,000 full-time jobs in April.
Predictably, Julia Gillard shot into action, harnessing the labour force data as evidence that her government's policies were hitting home.
But as we reported yesterday, there remains enormous skepticism over the ABS' miniscule 0.24% sample size. The overall trend data was more important, economists said, with leading lights Riki Polygenis and Shane Oliver suggesting "anecdotal evidence" could have more weight than official stats.
Even Gillard was sanguine, later claiming that we shouldn’t get "carried away" with the announcement. Across the board, earlier predictions of an 8% job-less rate by June next year were re-affirmed.
According to Roy Morgan, the non-seasonally adjusted unemployment estimate was actually up 0.1% to 7.1% with the ABS equivalent recording the same gain, up 0.1% to 5.5%.
Here at Crikey we’ve been claiming as much for months, with our SackWatch column documenting the lay-offs at the frontline. Today, in our ninth installment, we take a detour from the offices of the ABS to the factory floor where the recession continues to wreak havoc:
Check our Sackwatch meta-list for the full jobs fallout since early January.
Ernst & Young: A number of staff were sent home yesterday at lunchtime, with about 40 from the Brisbane office
BT Financial: Westpac wealth management business arm has sacked more than 300 financial advisers over the last six months
Independent contractors: Mark Latham’s "army" of 2 million independent contractors could be struggling for work, and might not be reflected in the official statistics, according to reports
Youth unemployment: 10,000 people aged 15 to 19 are set to join the jobless ranks every month, reports have claimed
Central Coast Sun-Weekly: Fairfax-owned NSW masthead has shut its doors
BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA): 400 workers told to take for a month beginning on from June
Intabill: e-Commerce mogul Daniel Tzvetkoff's firm has sacked 96 staff and ditched sponsorship of his V8 Supercar team
PriceWaterhouseCoopers: Accounting giant has asked 5000 full-time staff to take up to three weeks of unpaid leave in an attempt to cut costs.
Peters Ice Cream: Has shut Perth production with 140 jobs lost
ABS ordered to stop job cuts: 180 jobs lost in March currently the subject of a brawl with the union, with another 60 roles said to be on the chopping block
Nyrstar: Zinc producer has announced it will slash 60 jobs over the next 18 months at its Hobart smelter
Alcoa: Portland aluminum smelter said yesterday said it would curtail production by up to 15 per cent with more that 600 staff employed at the firm
OZ Minerals: Wholesale board and management cuts mooted following asset writedowns
Fonterra: New Zealand-owned dairy group will shed up to 140 jobs when it closes ice-cream-making operations at its West Australian plant
Computer Sciences Australia: Roughly 150 and 170 staff set to be made redundant with a salary freeze in place
Nokia: Phone maker will retrench 450 workers worldwide, although the Australian toll is unknown at this stage
Microsoft: Local headcount to be substantially reduced in line with global plans to lay-off 5,000 workers
Lane Walker Rudkin Sportswear factory: 60 jobs cut after the firm entered receivership
Vision Australia: Not-for-profit group announced it is sacking 130 staff, around 90 of which are in Victoria
Westpac: Big Four bank has already hived off 800 full time equivalent positions with more jobs to go in the second half, despite a solid profit result
UBS: Investment bank to cut around 500 jobs in Australian as the finance industry falls off a cliff
Special WA resources sector wrap:
Genalysis: 80 jobs gone from WA laboratory
Newcrest Mining: 400 at Telfer mine
Mt Gibson Iron: 200 to go
Talisan Minerals: 200 jobs to go
Moly Mines: 70
United Construction: 19
Norilsk Nickel: 150
Oz Minerals: 70
Consolidated Minerals: 133
St Barbara Mines: 45
Panoramic Resources: 60
Nifty Copper Mines: 26
Norilsk Nickel: 330
Windimurra: 200
Kimberley Diamond Company: 36
CSR Monier: 12
Webforge: 2 made redundant
Metso Minerals: 2 being made redundant
Stramit: 8 domestic plus 10 workers on 457 visas
Locker Group: 13
Cayes Engineering: 14
United Group Resources: Going from 100 to 43 and finishing apprentices up early
APAC: 80
AGC: 300
WesTrac: 75
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