16 workers laid off at Kaiaipoi
; ~A .Kaiapoi ,engineering firm,’ Patience and Nichol- :. son,. Ltd, has issued redundancy notices to /16 of its workers. /_■ ; J - The . general. manager ,’(Mr ; -J.’ S. W.- Hodkinson) »said? 'the ; notices were " issued/about; a. week ago. • '/.The's firm. > employs 1,180 . workers; t !50.< of; whom : <Wotk; in the engineering .department where the redundancies have occurred. Mr Hodkinson said that 11 other workers had been made redundant “a couple of months ago,” but he did." riot envisage more ’staff ' being/laid. off. - Allegations • that some staff had; been working an unofficial 36-hour .week twiere/ ‘‘untrue,he? said.
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