Sikorsky announces 600 layoffs over next several weeks
Source: New Haven Register
Sikorsky Aircraft announced Friday afternoon that it is eliminating 600 jobs in the next several weeks as a result of what it called “the challenging and unstable economic conditions that continue to affect our industry.”
Most of the jobs being eliminated are in Connecticut, said Paul Jackson, a company spokesman. The layoffs are roughly split between salaried and hourly employees, Jackson said.
“The salaried employee positions will be cut over the next several weeks, while many of the hourly positions will be eliminated over the remainder of the year as work winds down,” he said. Sikorsky has 3,900 hourly employees in Connecticut and 4,300 salaried workers in the state and 16,000 employees company-wide, according to Jackson.
The layoffs follow “significant cost-reduction actions that the company has already taken,” the company said in a statement.
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