Lucent Technologies will use part of its $45bn US based pension fund to pay for the majority of the redundancy packages of up to 20,000 staff that the firm plans to lay off.
A spokesman for the troubled communications networking equipment supplier declined to reveal exactly how much of the fund would be used to pay for the redundancy packages. He did state that the pla...
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