Panasonic recession layoffs thousands of people want to cut the loss of SANYO million

As the semiconductor industry competition, Japan's Panasonic Industrial Company in July 3rd decided to cut 1000 jobs in the domestic semiconductor sector, in order to reduce costs and improve efficiency.

Matsushita semiconductor department is mainly responsible for the production of digital home appliances with large-scale integrated circuits, a total of 15 thousand employees. Panasonic is the main way of the layoffs are expected to retire early retirement staff, the object is more than 10 years of work staff, the company said in mid July is expected to collect up to 1000 people.

SANYO loss intends to lay off thousands of people

According to Japan's economic news reported that the loss of the Japanese consumer electronics maker SANYO electric company, in the next few years will lay off more than 10 thousand people in Japan and abroad, accounting for about 1/10 of the total number of employees.

Reported that SANYO motor will cut 3000 people in Japan's semiconductor and other departments. For the fiscal year ended March, there were 38 thousand employees in these sectors. In addition to cutting thousands of jobs overseas, SANYO plans to integrate and close some factories in mainland China, Indonesia and elsewhere.

In the reduction of human motor, SANYO intends to focus resources on the solar cell, as well as other prospects in energy, environmental protection and other fields of digital electronic business. SANYO motor spokesman did not confirm the report, saying: we are stepping into the direction of the implementation of layoffs, the chip may be the biggest cause."