Sears Canada cutting 1,600 jobs
Posted Jan 15, 2014 05:27:15 PM.
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The axe is dropping again at Sears Canada, which is cutting roughly 16-hundred jobs in an effort to trim costs.
The struggling retailer says it has eliminated about 280 jobs at five warehouses between Vancouver and Montreal.
Sears Canada also says over the next nine months, it will also outsource about 13-hundred jobs at its three customer call centres in Montreal, Toronto, and Belleville, Ontario.
Company C-E-O Doug Campbell says the cuts are necessary for the health of the firm.
Last October, Sears Canada said it was cutting almost one-thousand jobs and closing five major stores, including its flagship outlet at the Eaton Centre in downtown Toronto.
In 2008, Sears Canada closed its Hamilton office, laying off about 140 mainly part-time staffers.
A year later, it shuttered its Regina office, laying off 250 people.