NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Petrobras Braseileiro (PBR) was falling -0.4% to $14.55 Monday on news that the company cut its workforce by 12.4% through a voluntary separation program.
The program, launched in January, offers an early retirement plan to employs. Petrobras said 8,298 employees agreed to be bought out, and 55% of them will leave the company in 2014.
Petrobras expects the program to save the company 13 billion Brazilian reais, about $5.85 billion, from 2014 to 2018. The company will write off 2.4 billion reais in the first quarter as a result of the program.
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