Boeing Layoff Update: American aircraft company Boeing, which has been facing difficult circumstances for the last few months, has fired hundreds of its employees in Washington and California. This information has been received from the Associated Press. The company had already announced reduction in workforce. The report said that the company has laid off about 400 employees in Washington and 500 in California.
Retrenchment due to this reason
Citing financial and operational challenges, the company had already talked about reducing the number of employees by 10 percent in the coming time. Boeing is going through difficult times for the last few months. Before this, many employees here were on strike for two months. However, CEO Kelly Ortberg says that these layoffs are not a result of the strike, but have been done due to the appointment of more employees than required.
More employees will be laid off now
The company had announced the layoffs in October itself and the workers to be laid off started being informed about it in November. Notices filed with state employment agencies show that 3,500 Americans have been affected by this first round of layoffs. This was mentioned in The Seattle Times. In this retrenchment, everyone from engineers to analysts have been laid off.
You will get salary for three months
However, the company has also said that the employees will remain on the payroll for two months. After this, many people will be laid off from work again till 21st February. The company has said that all these employees will continue to receive salary for three months, and will also be entitled to health insurance benefits during this period.
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