By Rhiannon Hoyle
SYDNEY--Mining and energy services company WorleyParsons Ltd.
(WOR.AU) said Tuesday it has been forced to cut some jobs and
redeploy other staff as "isolated pockets" of its Australian
business are affected by changes and delays to mining projects in
the resource-rich country.
There have, however, been no redundancies related to BHP
Billiton Ltd.'s (BHP.AU) decision last week to scrap a roughly
US$30 billion plan to expand its Olympic Dam mine in the state of
South Australia, and total staff numbers have risen in the past 12
months, a spokesman for WorleyParsons said in an emailed
statement.
"While overall employee numbers in WorleyParsons' Australian
business have increased over the past year some isolated pockets of
the business have been impacted by project activity resulting in
the redeployment of staff onto other projects and some
redundancies," the spokesman said.
The company wouldn't provide specific details ahead of its
full-year earnings report, which is due Wednesday.
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