Sunday 25 July 2010

Layoffs at Gulf News?

Several commenters have mentioned possible layoffs at Gulf News.

If anyone has heard anything, feel free to discuss.
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11 comments:

Anonymous said...

might just be coincidence, but I've had three CVs from GN employees in the last week.

25 July, 2010 20:49
Anonymous said...

Oh dear....


http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100726/OPINION/707259952/1080

26 July, 2010 11:09
Anonymous said...

Following the latest round of layoffs, and a lot more time spent in cafes with fellow out of work journalists, there seems to be a growing trend for companies not to pay former staff their.

ENG Media seem to be the worst. TMF appear pretty bad. Gulf News not too bad, so far.

Anyone on here had bad experiences with these guys, or are others worse?

29 July, 2010 17:32
Anonymous said...

DMI has shown itself to be a leading light when it comes to not paying staff their due, despite the mass layoff when EB shut down. The labour law has been cited, but I am sure the company has violated quite a few clauses of that law.

31 July, 2010 18:30
Walter S. said...

I don't have any specifics either way, but that would be bad news if layoffs do occur there. These bad economic times will hopefully end soon.

01 August, 2010 03:32
Anonymous said...

As Pakistan is devastated by floods, GN published an Independence Day Special Report entitled:

Buoyant Outlook

14 August, 2010 22:58
Anonymous said...

@22:58

That's genius, I wish I'd have seen that!

I hope that it was a deliberate pun that came as a flash of inspiration to a half-wit sub, who thought that the kudos of using it in print far outweighed the potential ramifications...

15 August, 2010 22:51
Anonymous said...

rumuours doing around again of 180 layoffs... any confirmation?

23 September, 2010 10:22
Anonymous said...

The copy desk at Gulf News has been cut to a skeleton crew and copy editors are working like slaves. The latest rumour is that there will be a further shake-up in October. Most people who work on the copy desk are looking around desperately for somewhere else to go. So if they don't hurry up, Gulf News may not be left with anyone to retrench.

30 September, 2010 15:59
23experiment said...

It happened, they were advertising in gulf news for new sales staff

19 December, 2010 21:24
Anonymous said...

it has happened

19 December, 2010 21:25

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