Qantas was, once, more than just an airline to most Australians — it was part of the national character.
Job cuts
Crikey Says: Demise of a once loved brand
NY Times to cut 100 newsroom jobs
The NYT has announced it will cut 100 jobs from its newsroom. Read the rather poetic memo to staff from Times Executive Editor Bill Keller: “I yearn for the day when we can do our jobs without looking over our shoulders for economic thunderstorms.”
Melbourne Uni’s $265m slush fund won’t save job cuts
The University of Melbourne is under mounting pressure to explain recent job cuts after leaked internal documents uncovered a $265 million plan to line its coffers.
Gannett axe Pulitzer winning cartoonist
The latest casualty of cutbacks by US newspaper publisher Gannett is Pulitzer-prize winning cartoonist Matt Davies, whose position was amongst 50 purged from New York’s Journal News.
Gannett profits from slashing
The first quarterly results from major US media company Gannet has produced a surprise profit, wrung from cost cuts that included 1400 jobs being cut.
ABS staff removal shemozzle
The downright bizarre process adopted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics to cut 180 staff prior to the Budget has now been acknowledged as “clearly inadequate”.
GM closes brands, cuts 20% of marketing staff
Marketing at General Motors is starting to resemble stuffing towels into the bow of the Titanic, as they cut staff and prepare to shut the Pontiac and Saturn brands.
Job slasher Qantas could be $338 million in the red
On the figures released this morning Qantas could be loosing up to $338 million in this last half of its financial year ending 30 June.
Massive ATO job cuts loom
The crisis in the Australian Tax Office is deepening, writes former tax commissioner John Passant.
Open done, jobs go at Seven Sport
A series of rumours this morning suggested Seven has cut staff at Seven Sport in Sydney, writes Glenn Dyer.
Dyer’s business wrap: Job cuts ahoy … Iceland shelved
Companies in the US and Europe chopped more than 87,000 jobs yesterday in another bloody 12 hours for the global economy, writes Glenn Dyer.
