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差不多占总员工的3.5个百分点。
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Finning Canada has laid off 160 salaried staff in Alberta and B.C. as sales of Caterpillar equipment slows in the economic downturn.$ S0 ~- Q. }8 Y$ Z* g
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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.# q* \" ]! c/ J1 O; H/ T
/ ]3 g& x9 l4 k$ @ W. H/ MTwenty-nine people lost their jobs in Edmonton, where Finning Canada has its head office.
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z# b2 ~) q9 c+ K( w"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.( b+ P5 U! G4 P
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It brings Finning Canada's workforce down to about 4,300.$ \. F" G- i+ w, k& m
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No hourly workers - who service and rebuild construction and mining equipment - are affected.
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% O/ ?! N0 b2 h/ ?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.
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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."3 J- v! ?& H% w5 f
9 D: q7 ]2 d( h+ DThe 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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5 X; X9 B5 T# P# G0 q e8 b"We're still very busy in the oilsands."9 q- L5 ?7 R8 N) V& ]2 B
3 `4 [- q5 R& LHunt said Finning has been immune to recent downturns, but is now being affected by slowing sales in some areas.: h8 q' W: N: G8 T
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They will continue to monitor the situation, but "we can't say it's the end" of layoffs, he added.3 d2 C7 P& g. C2 `0 h. B
' _. n! {) q2 `& |+ {9 k' B) ]# F) F) \The employees, most of whom got the bad news Wednesday, will get severance packages and outplacement help, he said.
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, O" j8 M+ {$ t# }. GMike 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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& T) F$ b5 q. }; |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.% T1 B4 w6 c- t+ a. ]
0 u& A$ g! w0 H* N" }% ? YFinning 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.& [# N4 A, t5 H- j9 a' P. \8 {/ a0 ~
* M& `/ ~' N7 W5 aIts 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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