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Screwed: 1,725 at National Semiconductor

A daily review of the employment fallout around the country and the world.

California-based National Semiconductor plans to give 1,725 employees the axe around the world…Saab  Automobile gives layoff notice to 750  employees in central Sweden…Dell manufacturing plant in Forsyth County, N.C., is laying off 300…Armstrong World Industries will be letting go 172 in Alabama…law firm Paul Hastings cuts 131 jobs in its third round of layoffs… Sesame Workshop lays off 67, about one fifth of its workforce…Apple is still yet to confirm the rumored 50 layoffs of enterprise salespeople…headhunters Major, Lindsey & Africa fired about 10% of its recruiters and an even greater percent of staff.

Read more about layoffs at the sites compiled on our layoff tracker page.

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