Latest Layoffs Affect Hundreds Across South Carolina
The layoffs continue in South Carolina this week, with three more businesses announcing they will close facilities and make mass layoffs.
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 South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce.
This week, the following businesses filed notices:
- Wells Fargo is laying off 254 staff in Columbia on August 25
- SI Group is laying off 74 staff in Orangeburg next March.
- Novant Health is laying off 90 staff in Indian Land on August 25
Recent South Carolina Job Cuts
There has been a spate of recent job cuts in the state.
- Carolina Cotton Works is closing a facility in Gaffney resulting in 120 employees losing their jobs on July 2.
- Tupperware advised it will shut down its only U.S. manufacturing plant, resulting in 148 South Carolina employees losing their jobs
- Caterpillar is closing a facility in Sumter in September, which will result in 109 employees losing their jobs.
- FedEx filed a notice advising 241 employees across facilities in West Columbia, Myrtle Beach, and Florence would be terminated in September.
- T-Roc Global laid off 100 staff in South Carolina on May 31.
- Logistics Support filed a notice with the South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce stating that 98 employees lost their jobs on June 7.
- The Bic Corporation filed a notice advising of impending job cuts due to a permanent closure of a facility in Gaffney. The business will transition operations at the Gaffney plant, which produces a limited supply of BIC Markers, to two BIC factories in France and Mexico. As a result, 46 employees will lose their jobs at the end of the year.
- Gentherm, which supplies heated seats for the automotive facility, announced it was moving the manufacturing production undertaken at the South Carolina facility to Mexico. The closure resulted in 124 staff at the facility losing their jobs in May.
- Stanley and Decker are also closing at the end of the year, resulting in 192 employees losing their jobs. In 2023, the company closed a facility in Chesterfield, leading to 179 job losses.