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Thursday, 24 September 2009 13:24 |
 The chairman of the labor union of reporters and a reporter for Morgunbladid, Thora Kristin Asgeirsdottir, has been layd off from Morgunbladid. There have already a number of employees layd off becuase of a broad organizing changes and are now close to twenty who have been fired so far.
Thora Kristin confirmed with Visir that she has been layd off. She does not want to comment about the matter as is, but says that the labor union of reporters is looking at these layoffs and there may be expected some reactions to that later today. |
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Friday, 04 September 2009 18:29 |
 At least 300 persons are going to lose their jobs in mass-layoffs in October and November. Then are 250 persons going to lose their jobs in September according to the information at the website of the directorate of labor.
As DV reported about on Wednesday morning were close to 50 persons laid off in August but in question was a company in construction or related operations. |
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Monday, 06 July 2009 07:54 |
One hundred and fifty employees of Istak have been announced just before the end of last month that they are to lose their jobs for the company in the coming few months according to the news of the national radio.
The plans are to reduce the employees by 270 persons because of lack of projects. Istak is a construction company.
News Article by noname
Translated by Anya
Original Article in Icelandic |
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Wednesday, 24 June 2009 11:55 |
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 Icelandair will this winter fly to 13 destinations in total. On average are 35 flights from Iceland per week from October 2009 till March 2010. The flights are to 9 cities in Europe and 4 cities in North America this winter. The plan of the winter is similar to the plan last winter. The main change is the scheduled flight to and from Seattle in USA which starts in July.
"When the exchange rate of the króna collapsed last winter started a great change of the combination of our passengers. |
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Monday, 04 May 2009 17:44 |
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 The contractor company Nesprydi in Reykjanesbaer laid all of its employees off last Thursday. The companies employee number was around fifty. This is confirmed by Jon B. Olsen CEO of Nesprydi.
He says that the company is not going into bankruptcy but there was nothing else that could have been done than lay off all of the employees because of lack of projects. "We want to be able to pay wages and their notice. We want to be able to pay the payments from our equipment. We want to be on top of things," says Jon.
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Thursday, 02 April 2009 16:27 |
 In March were 7 announcements to the directorate of labor where in total 357 persons were laid off. Three announcements were from financial companies in total 84% of those laid off were laid off this way, three resignations were from a store and repairs and one resignation from construction.
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Wednesday, 01 April 2009 21:51 |
 All of the employees of Frjalsi Fjarfestingarbankinn were laid off yesterday. These layoffs are a part part of the decision of the FSA to lay off all of the employees of SPRON and it´s subsidiaries, including the employees of Frjalsi Fjarfestingarbankinn.
Rehiring a part of the employees is being reviewed.
News Article by noname
Translated by Anya
Original Article in Icelandic |
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Wednesday, 01 April 2009 05:30 |
 Six announcements about mass layoffs in March have been received by the directorate of labor yesterday afternoon. From what Karl Sigurdsson, director of the labor field says that it is possible that more similar layoff announcement arrive today. The institution will as usually publish the summary of mass layoffs on the second work day of the new month.
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Wednesday, 18 March 2009 21:24 |
 The office of Atlantsskip in Hafnarfjordur was closed today. There are around 10 employees at the office which was not open because of operational business problems. Simon Kjaernested board manager of Atlantsskip is hoping that the company will be able to get over the problems in question but the imports and exports have been very few lately. All of the employees of the company have been laid off.
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Wednesday, 04 March 2009 14:00 |
 It is possible that the pharmaceutical company Actavis Group will be sold in parts to make the company more likely to sell. This is what the newsroom of Bloomberg publishes after two sources, who are said to have much knowledge of these matters. |
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Monday, 02 March 2009 10:41 |
 The board of the carpenter workshop Stigandi in Blonduos has decided to lay all of it´s workers off, in total fifteen persones. From what Einar Kolbeinsson CEO of Stigandi says, this is a precautionary action because of the uncertainty of the project situation of the company. Most of the employees of the company have three months in notice. |
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Wednesday, 25 February 2009 00:08 |
 Three helicopter pilots of the Coast Guards were laid off on Monday. The reason for this has not yet been made public. After the redundancies are now ten helicopter pilots at the Coast Guards, who have three helicopters available, TF-GNA, TF-EIR and TF-LIF. Also two pilots continue to work in the airplane TF-SYN. |
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Sunday, 15 February 2009 18:02 |
 There are considerable chances of that the Swedish financial supervisory administration will take over tomorrow the holdings company Milestone which is owned by the brothers Karl and Steingrimur Wernersons. There companies like the insurance company Sjova, and Avant will hear under the Swedish administration. |
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