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Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:28 PM

Published 11/03/2009 by Reuters UK


J&J slashing workforce

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) plans to cut up to 7 percent of its workforce in order to generate cost savings needed to finance increasingly costly drug research and to weather future challenges, the diversified healthcare company said on Tuesday..

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