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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.
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Twenty-nine people lost their jobs in Edmonton, where Finning Canada has its head office.6 V9 i# f$ Q% c
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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.( V/ P2 p& [9 d
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It brings Finning Canada's workforce down to about 4,300.3 z, r0 ~9 h3 K- g- a) G
' J- Y4 Q5 c3 Z3 V$ iNo hourly workers - who service and rebuild construction and mining equipment - are affected.
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- N2 b/ D }: o/ t8 pIn fact, the company is still hiring mechanics and technicians, Hunt said.7 u6 g Z, r% r( @% u
" j G( \+ f6 g0 @) D"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." z: |6 ?. H _4 a# g9 [; G
8 B' Z6 ?1 @ V/ Y9 t- ?; _"It's our customers who are going to get us through this, and that's the last place we want to cut."
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6 \- u: q& _- k2 C8 z2 P ^$ F6 OThe recent delays and cancellations of oilsands projects - a major income source for Finning - was not a factor in the layoffs, Hunt said.1 s3 ]8 U& K* H) X: `
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"We're still very busy in the oilsands."! w- H) v; H( N# W0 T" B' p) N& k
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Hunt said Finning has been immune to recent downturns, but is now being affected by slowing sales in some areas.: O7 Q5 g6 f, ]6 ^
. E( _' ~0 j U! YThey will continue to monitor the situation, but "we can't say it's the end" of layoffs, he added.
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* ^* ?5 p# \+ G, P' Z! |The employees, most of whom got the bad news Wednesday, will get severance packages and outplacement help, he said.. R* \$ L/ F, L# x1 H: D( ~* t
+ R6 U5 {( d; x7 q# p, a) y/ ~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.! A9 V# f' x8 G) b4 ]: T
) }4 }; o4 d, s* U4 ZDemand 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.5 A" J1 K1 D4 o2 L5 y8 ^
! `2 \3 w3 |; xIts 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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