Layoff Watch: Moynihan to follow through on 30K cuts

Wall Street workers got another warning shot across the bow as the nation’s biggest banks gear up to report third-quarter results beginning today. According to the NY Post report Bank of America chief Brian Moynihan yesterday said that he planned to make good on a springtime plan to cut a whopping 30,000 workers from the sprawling Charlotte, NC-based bank’s work force………… Moynihan has been struggling to put the lumbering bank on a diet and shed nonessential businesses and workers in an effort to reverse the course embarked upon by his predecessor, Ken Lewis. The former CEO hastily gobbled up mortgage giant Countrywide Financial and Merrill Lynch at the height of the financial crisis…………… In a plan dubbed “New BAC,” Moynihan’s pink-slip program will trim 10 percent from its work force of 275,000……............................................................ More? Check out http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/moynihan_to_follow_through_on_cuts_DfQgRDEVxYKGSnH6uCf21J