IPG is laying off more than 100 staff in the US.
The redundancies appear to be unrelated to the pending takeover of the advertising group by competitor Omnicom and were reportedly the result of a recent client loss.
News of the 103 jobs to be cut at the IPG Mediabrands Los Angeles offices was contained in a Worker Adjustment and Retaining Notification (WARN) at the end of October.
In California, companies with more than 100 employees are required to give 60 days notice of layoffs.
The IPG jobs are scheduled to go January 2.
Omnicom will absorb IPG in a $US13 billion deal to create the world's biggest advertising player.
The marriage of rivals brings together the world’s third biggest advertising group, Omnicom, with the fourth, IPG, to form a company with 100,000 people and revenue of $25.6 billion (net revenue of $20 billion), with 57% of that in the US.
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