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Alcatel-Lucent won´t lay off personnel in Romania, official says

Romanian Times

French telecommunications equipment giant Alcatel-Lucent won't lay off any personnel in Romania, according to local branch officials.

The company is planning to transfer some of the staff of its Romanian division to firms set up in partnership with other companies.

Iulian Costea, the group's marketing director for Southeastern Europe, said the programme aimed at forming partnerships with top providers of marketing or information technology services, according to Mediafax.

He explained that Alcatel-Lucent would not outsource those activities but that they would simply have a common source.

Costea denied rumours that 564 of the employees in Romania would be laid off in a programme to cut or outsource over 4,500 jobs in Europe this year and in 2010.

The group has been present in the Romanian market since 1991, and as of mid-2009 it had a staff of about 1,600, most of them in Timisoara in western Romania where Alcatel-Lucent operates a research and development centre.

The company had turnover of 192 million Euros and a net profit of 30 million Euros in Romania last year.

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