Four employers have told Virginia they will cut 785 jobs between mid-November and early December. Two of them are closing sites, Owens & Minor in Toano and Bechtel Power in Reston, and two are laying off workers, Leidos in Ashburn and ICF International in Arlington. The last of the four takes effect on December 7.
The figures come from the state’s list of advance layoff notices, which employers file under the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification law, known as WARN.
The four notices, in date order
The Virginia Works WARN notice table lists each one with a notice date and an impact date, the day the job losses are due to begin. Bechtel Power Corporation filed on September 15 for its Reston office, a closure affecting 200 workers with an impact date of November 16. Owens & Minor filed on September 16 for its Toano site, listed under Avid Medical, LLC. It is a closure affecting 419 workers, with an impact date of November 25…