Tag: job cuts
Holden tight-lipped on reports for engineering job cuts in Victorian plants
Holden has refused to comment on speculations that hundreds of engineering jobs in Victoria will be lost before the end of the year but confirmed...
Rheem to shut down its Perth factory and axe 100 jobs
100 manufacturing jobs will be lost at Rheem’s Perth factory, as Australia’s largest water heater and appliance manufacturer has announced it would close the...
Ford Australia sacks 250 workers at Broadmeadows and Geelong plants
As many as 250 Ford Australia workers will lose their jobs at the Broadmeadows and Geelong manufacturing plants come 20 June, as the company...
BHP sacks 170 jobs from Mount Whaleback; provokes wrath from CFMEU
BHP Billiton continued with its cost cutting and productivity drive efforts as the company cut 170 jobs at its Mount Whaleback iron ore on...
Australian transport and mining companies prepare to axe more jobs
The slowdown in Australia’s mining boom has prompted the country’s logistics and coal-mining companies to cut a combined total of 130 jobs, illustrating the...
Vincent Aviation in receivership, cuts 120 jobs
Australian commercial airline Vincent Aviation has cut 120 jobs at its headquarters in Darwin as the company announced on Wednesday that it has gone...
Asaleo slashes 100 jobs to improve efficiency
Asaleo Australia, formerly known as SCA Hygiene, has cut over 100 jobs of its 1100-strong workforce in Australia and New Zealand as part of...
BHP warns of possible Worsley layoffs
BHP Billiton has warned that it may cut jobs at its alumina operation in Western Australia depending on the results of an ongoing review...
AMWU slams Government for the decision to privatise the Royal Australian Mint
The Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) has expressed its outrage at the Government’s budget decision to sell the Royal Australian Mint, putting the jobs...
Up to 100 redundancies to take place as Toyota Australia adjusts workforce in Altona...
Toyota Australia has announced today that up to 100 voluntary redundancies will take place in its Altona plant in response to the drop in...
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