Metalor closing watch, gold production
GenevaLunch News Neuchatel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Metalor, Neuchatel-based international company in precious metals and gold, will be laying off 110 people as it closes its watches and jewelry...
View ArticlePfizer lays off 6,000 in major restructuring
GenevaLunch News Drug company Pfizer, in what it describes as a major restructuring, will lay off some 6,000 workers worldwide. Ireland’s Pfizer operations will cut 785 jobs. The news comes as 1,200...
View ArticleCuba to shed 500,000 state employees
GenevaLunch News The Cuban government will lay off half a million state employees over the next six months, the confederation of trade unions announced 13 September in the official newspaper, Granma....
View ArticleCisco rumoured to be slashing up to 10,000 jobs
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Cisco, which has three Swiss offices, including one in Rolle in canton Vaud, was busy presenting its latest products at Cisco Live in Las Vegas, Nevada Wednesday...
View ArticleNovartis 2,000 job cuts in US result of patent ending, new drug demand fall
GenevaLunch News BASEL, SWITZERLAND – Novartis will be cutting close to 2,000 jobs in the US, in New Jersey, as the result of an expected fall in demand for a relatively new medicine and the expiry of...
View ArticleYahoo! in Rolle reported to be laying off up to 2 dozen
GenevaLunch News LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The young Yahoo! firm in Rolle, which will move into its specially-built offices in June, is reported by RTS, Swiss public broadcasting, to be laying off “one...
View ArticleHP to lay off 27,000
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Hewlitt-Packard, which has its Europe-Africa-Middle East head office in Meyrin, Geneva, announced Wednesday from its head office in California that it expects...
View ArticleMerck Serono employees take stance, set possible strike date
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Three options have been handed to the owners of Merck Serono by the companies employees, who face either a transfer or in the case of most, the loss of their...
View ArticleSwiss journalism faces hard winter (update)
GenevaLunch News Publishers to end collective contracts by 2014 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A shock wave hit the world of Swiss journalism Wedneday afternoon, with news from French-language new publishers...
View ArticleOnline mortgages up, more PostFinance accounts, computer peripherals down
GenevaLunch News Logitech to lay off 140 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Computer peripherals specialist Logitech in Morges said Friday 1 March it will lay off 140 employees as part of its cost-cutting measures....
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