LEXINGTON, Ky. (FOX 56) — Facilities belonging to nationwide names in the technology and clothing markets in Kentucky are closing, and it could mean significant job losses for residents.
Notices of plant closures in Boone and Clark counties were announced on Thursday, July 10, by Pearl Interactive Networks and Levi Strauss & Co., according to the Kentucky Career Center. The notices were sent under the Worker’s Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act of 1988.
In Winchester, a facility on Bypass Road owned by Pearl Interactive Networks that currently employs 342 people will begin terminations on Sept. 10. Company leaders said in a WARN letter to the Kentucky Career Center that affected staff members would be able to apply for jobs at the same site when the company’s contract ends and a new owner takes over operations.
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Pearl’s CEO wrote that the decision to close the site was made after a contract to provide services in support of the Contact Center Operations Program for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services was not renewed…