Major Companies File Layoff Notices Across Ohio: What’s Behind the Job Cuts?

Statewide Layoffs Mount in Ohio

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More businesses in Ohip have announced 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 Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.

Last week, several layoff notices were filed. These included:

• Swissport USA is laying off 213 employees in Cleveland on November 2
• Faurecia Exhaust Systems is laying off 64 employees
• Big Lots Distribution is cutting 379 jobs at the end of October.

Ohio Job Cuts

This is the latest in a growing list of layoff notices filed in Ohio. Over the past few weeks, the following job cuts have been announced.

• Nordic Consulting Group is laying off 61 employees in Columbus on August 31.
• Steward Health Care advised that 765 staff would lose their jobs in October when the Trumbull Regional Medical Center is permanently closed.
• Post Consumer Brands is closing a facility "that will result in employee separations."
• Aramark Facility Services also filed a layoff notice advising that 104 employees in Cleveland will be laid off due to losing a contract.
• Global food giant Nestle announced layoffs. In total, 254 staff members at Nestlé USA’s Solon campus will lose their jobs in the coming months.
• Sid Tool Company is closing a warehouse in Columbus, resulting in 130 employees losing their jobs.
• Dollar General laid off 265 staff across several Ohio locations.
• Oak View Group advised they were laying off 108 staff in Ohio.
• Bon Appetit announced that 222 employees would be laid off due to losing a contract.
• EVO Transportation laid off 82 staff at a location in Columbus in June.
• Arlington Contact Lens Services will be laying off 151 staff in Columbus.
• Optum is closing a facility in Toledo, which will result in 129 people losing their jobs.
• Barclays advised closing a call center in Cincinnati, leading to 252 staff losing their jobs.
• IAC Wauseon filed a notice with the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services advising that it will lay off 175 employees over the coming months.
• Xeilia Pharmaceuticals filed a notice with the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services advising that it was laying off 214 staff in Bedford.
• Bath & Body Works Logistics Services eliminated 75 jobs in Columbus

Your thoughts

Are you concerned by the number of job losses in Ohio? Is there anything Gov DeWine can do to address this? Who is to blame for all these lost jobs?

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