Lafarge axes 460 jobs

Lafarge is axing 460 jobs as part of a reorganisation of its worldwide corporate division. The French building material group says 90 of the job losses will be in France where it has set up a voluntary redundancy scheme to minimise compulsory redundancies.
April 18, 2012 Read time: 1 min

725 Lafarge is axing 460 jobs as part of a reorganisation of its worldwide corporate division. The French building material group says 90 of the job losses will be in France where it has set up a voluntary redundancy scheme to minimise compulsory redundancies.

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