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Screwed: 6,000 at Fin Air

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

Today’s total: 8,850

Fin Air plans to layoff 6,000 workers for a few weeks at a time for periods of about two weeks to aid in savings of euro100 million… State of Illinois union officials will lay off at least 1,000 state workers during negotiations with AFSCME… Vodafone Ghana announces plans to layoff 950 workers in accordance with negotiations between Ghana Telecommunications (GT) Company Limited and the Communications Workers Union of GTUC in a Collective Bargaining Agreement… Four Mepz have laid off 700 workers by four garment factories in the Mactan Export Processing Zone… Iberia plans to lay off more than 100 directors for the company’s new managerial structure… Century Link will close its Embarq Corp. inbound call center in New Bern, North Carolina and lay off 100 employees…

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