Lenovo Group Ltd (聯想), the world’s largest PC maker, laid off 92 employees in Taiwan earlier this month, amid weak demand in the global market, the Ministry of Labor said.
Lenovo Global Technology (Taiwan) Ltd submitted a plan to the ministry on March 1, saying that the company intended to lay off 12 workers on March 4 and another 80 on March 20, Ministry of Labor section chief Chin Shih-ping (金士平), who arbitrates labor disputes in the local market, said on Thursday.
The layoffs were due to a decline in business, Chin said.
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Lenovo’s plan came to light earlier in the day, when local media reported that the company had cut its workforce in Taiwan by about 100, amid a drop in global orders.
Lenovo Global Technology (Taiwan), one of the China-based parent company’s two subsidiaries in Taiwan, is a computer and peripherals maker, which has 901 employees registered in the national labor insurance system, he said.
The other subsidiary is Lenovo Technology B.V. Taiwan Branch (Netherlands), a computer and peripherals retailer which has 106 workers registered in Taiwan’s labor insurance system, he added.
That subsidiary has not given any indication to the ministry that it plans to lay off workers.
Lenovo Taiwan had been compiling its layoff list since last month, with a plan to slash about 80 percent or more of its workforce in some divisions, local media reports said.
The company’s management and workers reached an agreement prior to the layoffs this month, Chin said on Thursday, but added that if any of the employees were forced to leave, he advises them to file a complaint with local government labor authorities to seek redress.
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