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预计Optus会在本周内宣布裁掉400个网络部门的员工。已知以下公司已经宣布或即将宣布裁员的消息：
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IN ANOTHER sign of the deteriorating economy, Optus is poised to slash hundreds of jobs as part of a restructure.
A large number of the job cuts - likely to be announced this week - are expected to be at the company's main office at North Ryde. About 400 staff in the network division are thought to be affected.
The Singapore-controlled telecommunications provider, which has 6000 employees in Australia, is also understood to have let go a number of senior executives as it seeks to counter the domestic downturn.
An Optus spokeswoman, Melissa Favero, yesterday would not confirm or deny the cutbacks. "I don't have a statement on that," she said, declining to elaborate.
In September, Telstra revealed plans to cut 800 jobs - mainly in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane - as it introduced new systems which reduced the need for support workers for frontline staff dealing with customers.
Several other big Australian companies, including Qantas, Ford and Fairfax Media, have announced job cuts in recent months.
Australia's unemployment rate of 4.3 per cent is still near its lowest in more than 30 years. But last week, National Australia Bank warned that the figure could be as high as 7 per cent by 2010.
"There's no doubt that the global financial crisis will have an impact on employment growth in Australia," the Federal Treasurer, Wayne Swan, said yesterday. "There is no doubt that we will see, over time, unemployment move up."
In a presentation in Singapore last month, Optus's chief executive, Paul O'Sullivan, pointed to a positive outlook for the telco. He said revenue, earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation and cash flows were expected to grow this quarter.
But a week after his presentation, SingTel's head of Singapore operations, Allen Lew, said Optus's parent company was preparing for tougher times.
"We are adopting a framework that will take into consideration 12 to 18 months of uncertainty and economic slowdown," Mr Lew told Reuters. "We are starting to curtail costs - discretionary costs, advertising costs. A lot of it is related to revenue."
Mr Lew said SingTel had no plans to axe jobs in Singapore but it had instituted a hiring freeze.
Len Cooper, the divisional president of the CEPU's communications division, said Optus had advised his union a few weeks ago that it was planning a major reorganisation but did not provide details.
"We can only assume this is tied to that," he said. "We've only heard rumours last week that there were going to be redundancies."
He said Optus, which uses a non-union collective agreement with its employees, in the past had not informed his union of redundancy plans before they were announced publicly. |
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