Thursday, November 08, 2012

620 Layoffs For TE Connectivity Plant Closing, Greensboro NC- Groupon Also Laying Off Workers and More

By Susan Duclos

Following up on the news of Boeing, Welch Allyn, Dana Holding Corp., Stryker, Boston Scientific, and Medtronic, and Hawker Beechcraft, all laying off workers or preparing to do so and companies like Darden Restaurants, a casual dining chain best known for their Red Lobster, Olive Garden and LongHorn Steakhouse, limiting employee hours  to avoid health care requirements under the Affordable Care Act when they take effect in 2014," we now have more companies to add to the growing list of those preparing for, or are already laying their employees off.

TE Connectivity to close Greensboro, NC, plant, 620 layoffs expected and Groupon lays off 80 employees.

Others- H/T Too Conservative:

Nextel to cut 20% of jobs at Virginia headquarters
U.S. Cellular to sell Chicago customers to Sprint, shed hundreds of local jobs
MN Dairy Plant Closure to Result in 130 Layoffs
Vestas to cut 3,000 more jobs
Nearly 200 ‘family-sustaining’ jobs to be lost as HarperCollins plans to close warehouse
Layoffs continue at Anniston weapons plant

[Update] More:

Rocketdyne Lays off 100 ahead of Aerojet Merger
Stanford brake plant to lay off 75
80 Layoffs hit Gary’s Majestic Star
Bristol-Myers to slash 480 sales-related jobs in NJ
Trumbull’s Oce laying off 135 in CT
Corning Inc. lays off 100 locally; diesel decline blamed