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The Walt Disney Co. has begun a round of layoffs that will see the elimination of 1,000 jobs across various divisions, including television, movie studios, and ESPN. Chief Executive Josh D'Amaro informed staff about the cuts on Tuesday morning. “Over the past several months, we have looked at ways in which we can streamline our operations in various parts of the company to ensure we deliver the world-class creativity and innovation our fans value and expect from Disney,” D'Amaro said. “Given the fast-moving pace of our industries, this requires us to constantly assess how to foster a more agile and technologically-enabled workforce to meet tomorrow's needs . . . As a result, we will be eliminating roles in some parts of the company and have begun notifying impacted employees.” He added: “Compassion and respect remain at the heart of our company . . . As we move forward through this transition, our priority is to support those impacted and help each person navigate what comes next with resources, guidance, and direct support.”
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Unite has held private talks with Reform UK about resolving Birmingham’s ongoing bin strike, amid expectations the party could gain influence on the council in next month's local elections. Discussions focused on potential solutions to the year-long dispute, which stems from job cuts linked to equal pay rulings at Birmingham City Council. Unite is engaging multiple parties to secure support for its demands. The meeting reflects shifting political dynamics in the city, where polling suggests no party may gain overall control next month. Endorsing most of the union's key demands, a Reform spokesman said: "The council has wasted £34 million already on this dispute. They have argued about the legal risks involved, but while Unite have published their legal advice on equal pay, the council has not produced any evidence or provided documents to back up their arguments."
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Stellantis has said it plans to invest €100m to transform its plant near Paris, which will keep making cars through at least the end of 2028, and then shift to activities including auto part production, recycling, and 3D printing. The company, which currently produces the Opel Mokka and DS compact sport utility vehicles at the Poissy facility, has vowed to retain 1,000 blue-collar jobs there by 2030, with no layoffs. Bloomberg notes that Stellantis has worked closely with labour unions on the project, which “guarantees an industrial future for the Poissy site at a time of rapid change for the automotive industry,” according to Xavier Chéreau, the group’s chief human resources and sustainability officer.
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At the recent HumanX conference in San Francisco, 6,500 investors, entrepreneurs and tech executives gathered to address the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on jobs. An advertisement at the entrance to the event set the tone for the four days: "Stop hiring humans." Florian Douetteau, the chief executive of Dataiku, a French company specialising in enterprise AI, told AFP that the real human added value is "capacity for judgment." He detailed a scenario whereby an AI agent works through the night and its human counterpart reviews the results in the morning. Nevertheless, he worries that "We are going to have a generation of people who will never have written anything from start to finish in their entire lives . . . That's pretty unsettling."
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