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  "id": 9335116,
  "title": "Legal & General to cut 1,000 jobs by mid-2027",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/23/legal-general-to-cut-1-000-jobs-by-mid-2027-9335116",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-23T11:51:35.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Business",
    "slug": "guardian-business",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/sep/23/legal-and-general-to-cut-1000-jobs-by-mid-2027"
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  "summary": "Programme will initially involve voluntary redundancies in the UK but the insurance and pensions firm will consider mandatory job cuts depending on the take-up Legal & General plans to cut 1,000 jobs by the middle of next year, about a tenth of the British insurance and pensions firm’s workforce. António Simões, the chief executive, is wielding the axe as part of his attempts to create a “leaner…",
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        "outlet": "Investing.com",
        "title": "Legal & General to cut 1,000 jobs by mid-2027",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/23/legal-general-to-cut-1-000-jobs-by-mid-2027",
        "published": "2026-09-23T10:29:34.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "WSJ Markets",
        "title": "Legal & General to Cut 10% of Jobs by Middle of 2027",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/23/legal-general-to-cut-10-of-jobs-by-middle-of-2027",
        "published": "2026-09-23T13:47:00.000Z"
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