Xerox To Add To Job Cuts - 800 This Round (Layoff Update)

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"Xerox Corp., the largest U.S. supplier of copiers, said Wednesday that it will fire about 800 additional employees, or 2.2 percent of its U.S. work force, in the next 10 days to cut costs after 14 straight quarters of declining sales.

About 200 of the workers are in the Rochester, N.Y., area, a spokeswoman said. They include engineering, administrative and clerical employees. Xerox, based in Stamford, Conn., had 36,700 U.S. employees and a global work force of 62,800 at the end of September.

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Andrx Corp., a generic-drug maker that's expanding into brand-name medicines, said it cut about 150 sales and research jobs as it targets specialized doctors and uses more outside research companies to explore new therapies. Andrx, based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has a work force of about 2,000.

Coleman Co. of Wichita, Kan., is eliminating 142 jobs at its plant in Wichita and will close a plant in Lake City, S.C., with 181 employees. The company is a subsidiary of American Household Inc."

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

[Beetwasher]

1. Didn't Snow Say that the Economy Would be Adding

something like 200,000 jobs a month from here on out?

[grannylib]

2. You missed the weekly revision; the numbers of added jobs were

revised downwards, to a -10,000 jobs/month; they have the Diebold company doing the counting...