Listen in to the BMS's cuts next week.

Bristol-Myers Squibb has begun notifying some of its 43,000 employees that they will not have jobs next year.

Details of the number of jobs to be cut and which plants are affected will be announced in the company's conference call next Wednesday with securities analysts, said Tony Plohoros, speaking for the company.

The public can listen to the call at www.bms.com/ir from 1 to 5 p.m. that day.