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Ericsson job losses


Swedish mobile phone company Ericsson is cutting 3,700 jobs in the UK and Sweden and is ending all mobile telephone production at its Worksop and Scunthorpe sites in a bid to save £1.4 billion a year. The group is outsourcing the manufacture of mobile phones to electronics specialist Flextronics. It is expected to source in eastern Europe or the Far East.
NEC cuts 4,000 jobs


Japanese semiconductor and computer company NEC is to shed 4,000 jobs and pull out of memory chip production. The cuts come on top of 14,000 job losses since 1999. The move is seen as the latest indication that Japanese companies are relinquishing their traditional reservations about the social impact of job cuts.
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