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A large corporation has reportedly filed with the Maryland Department of Labor to lay off hundreds of employees throughout the state.
There will be 540 layoffs as a result of the August closure of a UPS distribution center in Baltimore County.
UPS notified the Maryland Department of Labor of its intention to terminate operations at its sorting plant close to the junction of Interstates 95 and 695 on August 23, along with preparations for a mass layoff.
This shuttering comes after 118 employees were let go in a March round of layoffs at the same site.
The shutdown will not affect service to the Baltimore area, according to a UPS representative.
The business is currently making arrangements to transfer the impacted workers to a temporary hub on-site or to other adjacent locations.
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This shutdown in Baltimore County is a component of a broader effort to reduce costs, as announced in January by UPS CEO Carol Tomé.
In light of falling package volumes and increasing pay expenses, the corporation has announced its intention to let off some 12,000 workers this year.
Big names in industry are laying off workers in Maryland this year, and UPS isn’t the only one.
Other companies that have laid off workers in the state are listed below:
- Two hundred and twenty-one people lost their jobs when Jubilant Cadista Pharmaceuticals shut down their Salisbury facility on June 17.
- On August 13, Crown Castle would let go of 20 Columbia employees, while on July 5, 30 Harmans employees were let go by WillScot Mobile Mini.
- The local workforce took a major hit on June 30 when Transdev and First Transit each lost 498 and 408 jobs, respectively, in Hyattsville and Capitol Heights.
- On May 31, 463 employees were let off by Jacobs Technology.
- On the other hand, 190 people were let go by Baltimore’s Upper Chesapeake Emergency Medicine Physicians on June 1.
- With two separate notices, Home Depot laid off forty employees in the Maryland cities of Gaithersburg and Rockville.
- The shutdown of a plant in Germantown has resulted in the layoff of 25 employees, according to ADT Solar Health.
- On May 10, LGS Staffing fired 125 employees.
A total of 101 people lost their employment when Essendant shut down a facility in Hanover in May.
In order to inform the Maryland Department of Labor of the impending layoff of thirty-three employees, Reimagined Parking submitted six WARN warnings.
Several locations saw staff layoffs.
In May, a plant in Frederick was closed by Charles River Laboratories, resulting in the loss of jobs.
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