281 October redundancies in five rounds of job cuts
A total of 281 people were made redundant in five rounds of collective redundancies reported to Vinnumálastofnun (Directorate of Labour) last month. Of those, 177 worked for government institutions, 50 for Reykjavíkurborg (City of Reykjavík), 40 in social services, and 13 for a food production company. Among the redundancies reported last month were 50 job losses at Reykjavíkurborg (City of Reykjavík), in the third and final round of redundancies this year. Seventeen people lost their jobs at Sorpa, while all employees of the assistive devices centre operated by Sjúkratryggingar (Iceland…
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[Claude] Report 2 covers the same October total of 281 redundancies across five collective redundancy notices, with consistent detail on the public-sector majority.
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