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差不多占总员工的3.5个百分点。
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' G0 M9 q7 @$ M% K8 FFinning Canada has laid off 160 salaried staff in Alberta and B.C. as sales of Caterpillar equipment slows in the economic downturn.0 F/ {, @# V. ?+ w/ X
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Every office and every staff level, from support staff to management, in both provinces were affected, human resources vice-president Miles Hunt said Thursday.. W+ x, i: ~( _- w( z0 G' q4 |
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Twenty-nine people lost their jobs in Edmonton, where Finning Canada has its head office.9 h: P& ^4 T: A. Z
8 W1 k4 X: o6 N"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.
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It brings Finning Canada's workforce down to about 4,300.' J; Q' x4 A8 ^( f3 q
+ d# p Z2 `. b4 w6 H8 O! `/ J$ [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.7 [- |+ C8 B# Q0 l; u( a" G& Y! L V
5 V( n; q- w+ Y/ f; k"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.& G# I! x V$ a l- q
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"It's our customers who are going to get us through this, and that's the last place we want to cut.". P, Z) f+ q& l# U( b4 L. |
9 P! L9 @* D7 L- ]% FThe recent delays and cancellations of oilsands projects - a major income source for Finning - was not a factor in the layoffs, Hunt said.
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"We're still very busy in the oilsands."& `3 ^; U, o5 W, Q* B
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Hunt said Finning has been immune to recent downturns, but is now being affected by slowing sales in some areas., [ B% x4 X% ]4 }5 a8 u! K4 i
4 o+ Q6 ?, S8 }% ]2 Q# Q: AThey will continue to monitor the situation, but "we can't say it's the end" of layoffs, he added., t5 V- u* M# x4 p Z6 |, h5 A
3 N( l f) s- L F; rThe employees, most of whom got the bad news Wednesday, will get severance packages and outplacement help, he said.
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2 i' s* s! r" b% m9 @2 ]Mike 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.
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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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% k6 a! ^" b2 t) D4 n4 ?7 }Finning 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.
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" f, R7 W7 b. ]Its 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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