Sweden-based Electrolux will lay off 1,255 workers at the company’s Anderson plant starting in July, according to a WARN statement filed with the South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce (DEW).
That’s the largest number of layoffs by a company in South Carolina since OS Restaurant Services let go 2,476 workers in 2020, during the height of the Covid pandemic.
“Twelve-hundred is horrible,” said Anderson County Manager Rusty Burns Thursday. “The plant is supposed to be down for six months while they retool. All of the employees will be eligible to be rehired, and that is the situation that we have right now.”…