Cessna to lay off 2,000 workers
WICHITA, Kan. —
Cessna Aircraft Co. told workers Monday that it will lay done an additional 2,000 employees across its facilities, saying the job cuts are needful to ensure its long-term constancy and success.
The proclamation was made in an e-mail from Cessna’s head of human resources, Jim Walters, to employees. The work force reductions will be implemented across the Wichita, Kan.-based collection’s facilities and arrogate all pay categories, it related. Cessna is a unit of Textron Inc.
“These actions are regrettable, but necessary to ensure our long-term fixedness and success,” Walters told employees in the e-mail. “As always, we remain committed to detain you informed of the processes and next steps as we work from one side this difficult time.”
Workers will receive 60-day notices in the reach the next few weeks, with the cuts occurring in March, Cessna spokesman Robert Stangarone aforesaid. As part of the cuts, the company will offer a voluntary layoff program, with distinct parts to exist released later.
“These are particularly difficult times and it is very painful to lose so many great team members, and unfortunately we must take these steps to defend the future of our company,” Stangarone said in a telephone interview.
The layoffs were not entirely unexpected. The company told its employees highest week that it was planning a second round of cuts, a month for it issued 60-day layoff notices to about 500 Wichita employees and 165 workers in Bend, Ore.
Cessna is Wichita’s biggest employer, with 12,000 employees. The company also has 1,300 people working at its Independence facility and has manufacturing facilities in Columbus, Ga.; Bend, Ore.; and Chihuahua, Mexico.
Stangarone could not say exactly how crowd jobs might have existence divide at each locating.
“Right now we are just saying across Cessna. We are not being any more specific than that,” he said.
The company has been talking to its customers about their orders and trying to assess what production will have existence throughout the year, he said.
Cessna is not the only Wichita aircraft maker that’s struggling. Hawker Beechcraft Corp. also told its employees hold out week that it was planning a second in circumference of layoffs in the next few days. Hawker Beechcraft has laid off nearly 500 workers as well.
“Anybody who is in Wichita certainly sees the sort of is happening with the economy and results,” Stangarone said. “They are pretty well mindful of the site we are in.”
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