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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.
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5 k, u, T& g }7 ], r$ kEvery office and every staff level, from support staff to management, in both provinces were affected, human resources vice-president Miles Hunt said Thursday., T: \( n6 q; B4 R
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Twenty-nine people lost their jobs in Edmonton, where Finning Canada has its head office.
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) e6 V y8 _ j. z" M"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.! e1 V3 b* z8 s; O' \
" \5 P! w: ]% g! K* ?It brings Finning Canada's workforce down to about 4,300.( T# A4 a8 ?, {/ b
# u: L2 C$ T! N8 n3 e1 jNo hourly workers - who service and rebuild construction and mining equipment - are affected.1 { I3 R3 Q9 N8 [
8 a$ l9 l$ F7 |In fact, the company is still hiring mechanics and technicians, Hunt said.1 N8 w# F. G) ?/ A
( E0 J! G$ W3 {9 j8 F"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."5 d, I2 Y3 B4 y- E& ^" D" A$ s
2 j4 {$ p7 h) F3 `+ \( z) ^: NThe recent delays and cancellations of oilsands projects - a major income source for Finning - was not a factor in the layoffs, Hunt said.0 G: H7 K9 \( h: E v3 D$ M" |- J. l
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"We're still very busy in the oilsands."% j, Z- z. `) Z; `- A; M; N
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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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0 O8 W/ i$ h; V a* X6 W3 fThey will continue to monitor the situation, but "we can't say it's the end" of layoffs, he added.& z. J3 S% i3 O0 Z
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The employees, most of whom got the bad news Wednesday, will get severance packages and outplacement help, he said./ f- I8 A- b- e
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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.7 e) [6 c# R) l Y/ B+ }
6 B! M5 U7 Y0 t. AFinning 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 $1.33 billion a year before.
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' t$ z* h! p l9 Y' ZIts 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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