A Massachusetts meat-packaging plant will close this summer, resulting in nearly 200 layoffs, according to state officials.
Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. filed a public Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act Notification (WARN) this month, stating it will cease production at its Springfield facility in August.
Dozens of employees will be laid off over the course of five months, Monica Derby, Smithfield’s human resources director, wrote in a letter to the state’s Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development…