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About 475 positions will be shifted to Houston, with workers in Roseville given priority for those openings. HP plans to maintain operations in Roseville, which is near Sacramento, and expects to have 4,000 workers at its campus there after the plant is closed. The company said there are no "blanket layoffs" associated with the Roseville closing, although HP is cutting thousands of jobs as part of its acquisition of Compaq Computer, with many of the cuts coming in its money-losing enterprise computing unit. Initially, HP said it planned to cut 15,000 jobs as part of the merger. In September, the computing giant upped the number of planned cuts to 16,800 and said in November that it would trim a further 1,100 jobs. The 300 HP employees and 200 temporary workers at the Roseville manufacturing plant will have the opportunity to transfer to Houston and will be eligible for relocation assistance, the company said. Temporary workers who transfer to Houston will have the opportunity to become regular employees, it added. HP workers will also be able to maintain their current salary level. ZDNet's IT Pro RoundUp distils the most important news, reviews, comment, special reports and analysis and sends it direct to your inbox. ZDNet is a registered service mark of CNET Networks, Inc.
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