Corporations announce local layoffs, including campus dining services at Youngstown State
Around 50 employees working at a local catering company will lose their jobs in the spring.
Chartwells Catering provides food for Youngstown State University students for on-campus dining and off-campus special gatherings like Fall Fire Fest.
According to the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services, 53 employees working with Chartwells Catering at YSU will be terminated May 5.
These layoffs include but aren’t limited to seven cooks, 20 food service workers/cashiers, six supervisors and administrators like the bookkeeper and marketing specialist.
Chartwells Higher Education is a part of the nationwide food service company called Compass Group which hires cooks, kitchen managers, clean-up crews and cafeteria-production staff for universities and colleges.
The contract between Compass and YSU is ending this year, according to a letter sent from Compass to Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services, which was received Feb. 28.
Chartwells Catering employees aren’t the only northeast Ohio workers being impacted by layoffs this year.
On Jan. 22, Charter Communications, which owns Spectrum, sent a letter announcing the closure of their sales call center in Akron.
Effective March 28, Spectrum is letting 259 employees go and don’t expect to reopen the sales office at at 530 S. Main St. in Akron, according to the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services.
The closure will affect 229 sales representatives and several managers, supervisors and administrators.
A manufacturing facility in Cleveland will begin to wind down production at the end of May and let employees go, according to the letter received Feb. 26 by the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services.
Effective May 31, 55 employees will be terminated at the Worthington Samuel Coil Processing facility on Heidtman Parkway in Cleveland.
It’s part of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) which requires employers with 100 or more employees to provide advanced notice to their workers impacted by company-wide layoffs.
The notices have to be sent out at least 60 days in advance.
The layoffs have to include 50 or more employees working at one location, and employers are required to tell managers and supervisors, as well as hourly and salaried workers, this far in advance in order to give them time transition to a new job.
