Canada: CBC to Cut up to 800 jobs

Canada’s national broadcaster, CBC, announced yesterday that they’re laying off approx 10% of workforce.
The details came a day after CBC president and chief executive Hubert Lacroix announced the public broadcaster would have to cut about 800 full-time positions in total at the CBC/Radio-Canada, as well as selling about $125 million in assets.

CBC English Services plans to cut up to 80 positions from its news division and a further 313 from sports, entertainment, current affairs, sales and support across the country.

Source: CBCNews, Canada

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Canada’s Employers Cut Record 129,000 Jobs in January

According to Bloomberg: “Canada lost a record number of jobs in January, pushing the unemployment rate to a four-year high of 7.2 percent, as companies struggle to cope with the country’s first recession since 1992.

Employers cut a net 129,000 workers, three times the loss forecast by economists, after a drop of 20,400 in December, Statistics Canada said today in Ottawa. It was the largest drop since the methodology for the survey was changed in 1976.”

Mosaic to Lay Off 1,000 People in Saskatchewan

Mosaic Co. (NYSE:MOS), confirmed yesterday it will lay off more than 1,000 workers at its potash mines in Saskatchewan[, Canada] due to slow fertilizer demand, the global credit crisis and growing potash inventories.

The layoffs, which affect about 80% of the total workforce at the two mines, will take effect March 8 at Colonsay and Feb. 15 at Esterhazy. Mosaic employs about 1,500 people in Saskatchewan, including about 250 at its potash mine at Belle Plaine, west of Regina.

Source: National Post

Canada sees big job losses.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty warned on Friday of significant Canadian job losses in 2009 and said he was not ruling anything out as he prepares a stimulus package for a budget that he said would run a large deficit.

“We’re in for a very difficult year,” the Conservative government minister said. “We are going to have substantial job losses. We need to respond to the needs of people who will lose their jobs this year.”

Source: Reuters

GM to Cut Output at Four Factories; 2,000 Affected

According to Bloomberg: “General Motors Corp., running out of cash and combating a 22 percent plunge in U.S. sales this year, said it’s cutting production at four North American car plants in 2009, affecting 2,000 jobs.

The automaker will eliminate the third shift at its factories in Lordstown, Ohio; Oshawa, Ontario; and Orion Township, Michigan, in February, said Chris Lee, a GM spokesman. GM will also suspend production for a week at the Chevrolet Malibu plant in Fairfax, Kansas.”