Verizon to Take Quarterly Charge of Up to $1.9 Billion for Severance

Verizon’s headquarters in Basking Ridge, New Jersey.

Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
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Verizon Communications Inc. will take a pre-tax charge of as much as $1.9 billion in the third quarter tied to 4,800 planned job cuts.

The biggest US mobile carrier said it announced a voluntary separation program for some US-based management positions in June. Over half of the employees concerned will exit in September and the rest by the end of March, according according to a securities filingBloomberg Terminal Thursday.