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Screwed: 403 at MTN

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

Today’s Total: 2,087

MTN, South Africa’s biggest mobile operator, announced plans to lay off 403 employees across all divisions… Nebraska state officials are contemplating 400 layoffs to help meet a $334 million budget cut… Fiserv will close a customer call center in Illinois and leave 290 jobless… First Data Corp. will reduce its global workforce by 250… Oklahoma state’s Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services voted Friday to reduce its budget by $7.3 million and eliminating 100 jobs… R-G Financial Corp. cut 100 jobs from retail banking and mortgage banking operations in Puerto Rico… Murray Energy Corp. announced the layoffs of 91 employees in Ohio… Virginia Commonwealth University plans to lay off 91 staff members after state budget cuts for education… Colorado Springs will lay off 73 transit workers by the end of the year… Lennox Hearth Products of Orange County, Calif. cut 71 workers from its payrolls last week… Wyoming school administrators proposed eliminating 57 staffers unless unions agree to a pay cut… The town of Buckeye, Ariz. anticipates cutting 40 public safety jobs in order to compensate for a budget deficit… The Indiana Department of Administration laid off 33 employees as a cost-cutting measure… Cascade Steel Rolling Mills handed out 30 pink slips last week in its fourth round of layoffs this year… The New York Times News Service plans 25 editorial job cuts by next year… Clark County, Ind. was forced to lay off 20 people in preparation for 2010 budget cuts… Atlantic Beef Products of Canada gave layoff notices to 13 workers.

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