Toshiba looking for Y500 billion boost

Monday 20th April, 05:36 AM JST

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JeffLee at 07:07 AM JST - 20th April

If Toshiba were serious about cutting costs, it would chop its regular workers, not temps or part-timers. The latter two are a low-cost hedge against downturns. The regular workers are where the high costs reside.
Heda_Madness at 12:00 PM JST - 20th April

It's very easy to cut Part-Time and temprorary workers in Japan, it's much harder to cut permanent workers. As well as redundancy pay-offs they would have to pay them their retirement lump sum which would make a massive impact on their short-term finances.
JeffLee at 12:23 PM JST - 20th April

Attrition and early retirement?
sunny117 at 02:20 PM JST - 20th April

When the temps and non - regulars have worked with the same dedication as the regular workers, then it is unfair to treat them on seperate paramaters.

Rather go for pay cuts to make the pays of all of the three categories equal - than to throw some out to sustain the pay levels of the others.
Seiryu at 03:02 AM JST - 21st April

Poor Toshiba. But global solid-state storage demand is growing, isn't it?

More layoffs and it's always the part-time workers - I can only imagine what it must be like for a part-time worker in Japan right now :O.