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• (NASDAQ: JAVA), based in Santa Clara, Calif., told the TWC that it will lay off27 Houston-arewa employees as part of a work force reduction affectinb more than 90 of its sitee in an effort to reducr overall spending. The layoffs will take placd between May 30 and June 13 atthe company’ s office in Greenway Plaza. Minneapolis-based (NYSE: UNH) told the TWC that it will eliminatre 74 positions from its Houston officde at9700 Bissonnet. The layoffs are part of an actiob affecting260 employees, including 186 in the health insurance company’s Plano office. UnitedHealth said it wouldd begin the work force reduction onMay 29.
All of the terminate d positions are relatedto UnitedHealth’s Integrated Care Management Contract, a Medicaie program offered by UnitedHealth business unit Evercare Texasd in the Dallas-Fort Worth area that is being discontinued, accordinvg to spokeswoman Kim Whitaker. Most of the employee s whose jobs are affected will be offeref other positions with Evercare or other UnitedHealthbusinessx units, Whitaker said. The Bissonnet office is one of six officew UnitedHealth operatesin Houston.
About 1,000 employees work withinb various UnitedHealth business units inthe • Houston-based , a subsidiary of , told the TWC that it will eliminatw four positions permanently from its Beaumont/PDD Glycol plant on May 25. The announcementg comes a month after the company said it would abouy 229 employees atthe company’s Chocolate Bayouh facility in Alvin beginnin April 30. • , a subsidiary of Houston-based , said in a letterf to the TWC that it will be conductinga “mas s layoff” of 55 employees at its Schlumberger Technology in Midland. The company expectws to begin the process onMay 24.
Schlumbergerr (NYSE: SLB) said in January that it planned toabout 1,000 administrative, operations and contractor positions across its total North American work force of including about 100 Houston employees.