Nearly 600 manufacturing Daimler Truck North America employees are temporarily losing their jobs in the Charlotte region.
Daimler Truck North America is temporarily laying off 573 workers at its two Mount Holly sites, according to a N.C. Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act report filed Friday with the North Carolina Department of Commerce. The “mass layoffs” will be effective Friday at the Custom Truck Services facility 1803 Main St. and the manufacturing plant at 1800 N. Main St., according to the report.
The layoffs are “due to a sustained reduction in orders and diminished build rate,” Daimler Truck North Carolina Human Resources Manager Steve Griffin said in the company’s WARN report letter to the state…