Tiscali has culled half its workforce in Denmark in a bid to cut its losses and end the year with positive earnings.

Some 110 people out of 223 were laid off at the pan-European ISP last Friday following ten days of speculation that massive job cuts were imminent.

The job losses came a week or so after CEO Peter Bredgaard left the company.

If that's not bad enough, it seems the mass redundancies could be the subject of legal action with a union claiming that Tiscali has not followed employment legislation.

This, though, is denied by Tiscali, which claims it has observed the Danish law in negotiating and finalising the dismissals.

In a statement Tiscali told The Register: "The telcom industry is going trough a process of rationalisation at a European level, aimed at consolidating effective systems and suitable structures.

"Tiscali has started a regionalisation process of the Nordic countries which will group these regions' activities under one unique operation responsibility; of course this has lead the company to redundancies which will be managed according to the Danish regulations," it said. ®