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差不多占总员工的3.5个百分点。
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% H3 Z$ Q# O. s- ^% FFinning Canada has laid off 160 salaried staff in Alberta and B.C. as sales of Caterpillar equipment slows in the economic downturn.
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* c! e) t" w' f( q% NEvery office and every staff level, from support staff to management, in both provinces were affected, human resources vice-president Miles Hunt said Thursday.1 p; w" d- U* W% ], E/ w3 |
" a- r, Z# D' c7 v) ?Twenty-nine people lost their jobs in Edmonton, where Finning Canada has its head office.
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' Q( l Y+ d1 |* c8 r& G/ E0 `8 E"It's the toughest decision we have to make in our business life, and it's been a hard few days for us," Hunt said.* j* P; f9 D) u+ B/ a
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It brings Finning Canada's workforce down to about 4,300.3 C' B+ R r% S
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No hourly workers - who service and rebuild construction and mining equipment - are affected.
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In fact, the company is still hiring mechanics and technicians, Hunt said.
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"That's the paradoxical thing. Even though things are changing, Fort McMurray (Alta.) is still growing, and we need more people up there," he said.' h9 _) A! s j+ q Q" |1 O% J
9 v7 }* w8 |2 G"It's our customers who are going to get us through this, and that's the last place we want to cut."7 o+ S. J9 k. W* c; F" ^& @, c( U5 `
1 N4 u# S# c$ M Y- \! X6 `The recent delays and cancellations of oilsands projects - a major income source for Finning - was not a factor in the layoffs, Hunt said.2 F$ n( `4 L- Y j9 b& p8 o
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"We're still very busy in the oilsands."* U& I L* X/ y) s* Q
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Hunt said Finning has been immune to recent downturns, but is now being affected by slowing sales in some areas.
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# d( o4 M8 I! O* m5 SThey will continue to monitor the situation, but "we can't say it's the end" of layoffs, he added.
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The employees, most of whom got the bad news Wednesday, will get severance packages and outplacement help, he said.
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- t( f& M- d7 Y8 ?+ D& { u3 CMike Waites, CEO of Vancouver-based parent company Finning International Inc., recently lowered the 2008 earnings guidance due to a slowdown in some of its businesses in Western Canada and the United Kingdom.6 K8 m/ j2 M/ Z
0 _) n# F4 G# D; L- I/ S6 _Demand for new equipment will likely soften and some purchases may be deferred, but that will result in an increase in its parts and service business - Finning's most profitable business - he said.
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; C! M4 Z9 ~8 \. `" o3 q' V. LFinning reported third-quarter net income of $64.8 million compared to $63.6 million for the same quarter last year. Revenues were a record $1.46 billion, compared to $1.33 billion a year before. V. d; z" j4 u
/ I3 d3 z! t0 d7 @" y SIts order backlog has also grown to a new record of $2 billion, dominated by mining equipment, "and provides good revenue visibility for 2009 and into 2010," Waites said. |
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