The average salary among Reckitt's 37,800 workforce last year was £33,000.
The council said the proposed reduction was a small proportion of its 33,000 workforce.
More than 3,100 of Corus's 24,000 workforce are employed there.
Of HSBC's 42,000 workforce in the UK, around 2,000 hail from the EU.
At only a month's notice, 18,000 of the state's 25,000 workforce were put on a four-day week.
Of Galicia's 1.1m workforce, 17% have no job; 16% are in agriculture, some 3% in fishing.
Further job cuts, as many as 25,000, are expected from the combined 140,000 workforce during the three-year integration.
Last month, Direct Line announced plans to cut almost 900 jobs from its 15,000 workforce as it looked to reduce costs.
Management at the 174-year-old textile firm, which specialises in textile printers and dyers, had made 20 people redundant from the company's 131 workforce just two weeks ago.
Sports Direct could, like many other businesses with a need for a 365-day-a-year, 24-7 workforcemployloy most of its workers directly.
An estimated 130,000 of the industry's 400,000 workforce are non-UK nationals – many from eastern Europe, often doing valued seasonal work in agriculture and factories.
