{"id":1517,"date":"2005-06-30T19:43:55","date_gmt":"2005-06-30T11:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwei.webfactional.com\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2005-06-30T19:43:55","modified_gmt":"2005-06-30T11:43:55","slug":"siemens_cuts_jobs_workers_prot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/business-and-finance\/siemens_cuts_jobs_workers_prot.php","title":{"rendered":"Siemens cuts jobs; workers protest in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Siemens has announced layoffs in its mainland mobile phone business. Earlier this week it was rumored that up to 80% of its salesforce would be cut, and although Siemens denied this number, workers in Beijing came out to protest yesterday.<\/p>\n

Several dozen people gathered outside of Siemens offices, carrying banners reading “We request to be treated the same as German employees” and “Fight Siemens’ ruthless layoffs.”<\/p>\n

The layoffs apparently are the result of business problems in Siemens’ mobile phone division.<\/p>\n

“This is a consequence of the energize mobile division programme, where Siemens is reviewing the business set-up in selected countries,” Siemens said yesterday.<\/p>\n

“All affected employees have been personally informed. We are trying to identify other opportunities for the affected employees in the Siemens organization or partner organizations in China,” it said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And according to the spokesperson, this has nothing to do with plans to sell the mobile-phone division to the Taiwanese firm BenQ.<\/p>\n

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