Job Losses Surge in Washington State Amidst Business Closures and Layoffs
Unfortunately, another business has announced mass layoffs in Washington State, and this time, it is not only employees who are impacted but people seeking urgent care.
Under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, an employer with more than 100 full-time workers must provide a 60-day notice before laying off 50 or more people at a single site. The notice must be filed with the Washington Employment Security Department.
This week, Sun Power Corporation filed a WARN notice advising that 90 employees at a location in Bellevue will be permanently laid off on September 24.
Washington State Cuts
There has been a spare of layoffs in the state in recent weeks. Other job cuts include:
- Roy Farms laid off 129 staff in Moxee.
- Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center filed a WARN notice advising that 50 employees will be permanently laid off on September 7
- McKinley Paper Company will lay off 190 employees in Port Angeles on August 25
- Ardagh Glass laid off 244 employees in Seattle on July 1.
- New Columbia Fruit Packers is closing a facility in Yakima, which means 216 employees will be laid off on August 16.
- Prestige Care is laying off 150 staff in Vancouver.
- Amazon is closing a warehouse facility in Tukwila where 172 staff work.
- Lululmeon filed a layoff notice advising that 128 staff in Sumner lost their jobs on June 21.
- Online travel agency Expedia advised 36 staff in their Seattle office will be laid off on August 1
- Block laid staff in its Vancouver office on June 3.
- Plug Power is closing at the end of June, resulting in the loss of 107 jobs in the Spokane Valley.
- Pfizer closed a facility in Everitt, and 119 staff lost their jobs on June 3
- TEKSystems laid off 86 staff in their Redmond office on May 25.
- BAE Systems laid off 54 staff in Keyport and Silverdale.
- The American Queen Steamboat Company is ceasing operations, resulting in 508 staff in Clarkston and Vancouver losing their jobs.
- 76 staff at Output Services Group in Renton lost their jobs.
- AIDC USA laid off staff in Bothell on May 11.