Hertz World Holdings Inc. and Avis Price range Group Inc. are starting to put off employees to chop prices whereas urgent the federal authorities to contemplate together with their sector in any federal help offered to travel-related corporations.

Hertz began furloughs at midnight on March 21, Paul Stone, COO for the corporates North American operations, wrote in an inside memo. Avis is shedding workers as a part of greater than $400 million in annualized value reductions introduced in a press release Monday.

A Hertz spokeswoman confirmed the authenticity of Stones memo. Neither firm launched particulars on what number of staff theyre shedding.

The job cuts come days after Hertz CEO Kathryn Marinello and her friends at Avis and Enterprise Holdings Inc. requested the U.S. Treasury Division to incorporate their corporations in an help package deal for airways and different companies whose operations have been decimated by journey curbs that span the globe. Theyre searching for grants to assist deal with liquidity points...