NU Online News Service, Dec. 13, 9:17 a.m. – Aetna Inc., Hartford, announced today it will spend $125 million to cut 6,000 jobs.
Aetna now employs 43,000 people.
Aetna hopes to achieve 1,600 of the cuts through attrition.
Aetna begin laying employees off this fall, and it expects to lay off more employees throughout 2002, the company says.