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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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Every office and every staff level, from support staff to management, in both provinces were affected, human resources vice-president Miles Hunt said Thursday.0 ^* o9 _) T3 N. S4 f
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Twenty-nine people lost their jobs in Edmonton, where Finning Canada has its head office./ U% W, j; h5 H4 P6 h
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"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.
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" K Z/ |6 g5 l. ^No hourly workers - who service and rebuild construction and mining equipment - are affected.& w; _ `6 Z- u. s Y2 B
/ X* z+ h+ f7 ?$ Y! c; vIn fact, the company is still hiring mechanics and technicians, Hunt said.: X$ H+ B- a( U" f
7 q2 x# Z. F! Z"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.7 ~6 \1 g, c/ L, n
" |# A( ?+ l9 R; ^ W4 c"It's our customers who are going to get us through this, and that's the last place we want to cut."1 @2 d8 A: C$ O
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The recent delays and cancellations of oilsands projects - a major income source for Finning - was not a factor in the layoffs, Hunt said.7 u8 E; W0 D( T
& I- ]: ~: P! u" A# j! x"We're still very busy in the oilsands."
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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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They will continue to monitor the situation, but "we can't say it's the end" of layoffs, he added.& w% F; y% s1 w4 O
* K h) W! o6 o, c" P/ i- H: rThe employees, most of whom got the bad news Wednesday, will get severance packages and outplacement help, he said.' _5 O& \; O( `( \ B
% N( \) ?3 b; E6 p" TMike 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 u) D; Z# K7 |
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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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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.: }2 [5 w- k/ d1 P
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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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