HUNTSVILLE, Ala. ( WHNT ) — A Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification notice shows Boeing will begin laying off over 100 people in Huntsville at the end of June.
Boeing is a corporation that designs, manufactures and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites plus missiles. The WARN list notification shows Boeing will be laying off 128 employees in the state.
Boeing is one of the largest aerospace engineering companies in the state. It employs about 3,400 workers in the Rocket City. Boeing confirmed April 25 that it would be making staffing changes.
Boeing supplier whistleblower Joshua Dean dead at 45 “We have notified some team members in Huntsville of a potential layoff, as programs are affected by decisions external to Boeing,” a Boeing spokesperson stated Friday. “We will continue to be transparent with team members and explore alternative placement opportunities within Boeing for impacted employees.”
This news comes just over one week after reports that the Space Launch System program in Huntsville is facing slowdowns after NASA pushed back its Artemis II and III launches.
Launch delays are impacting work rates for contractors on the project, including Boeing. A spokesperson for the company also confirmed SLS is one of the programs affected by the planned layoff, but other programs and functions might also be affected.
The WARN Act helps to ensure companies give advanced notice “in cases of qualified plant closings and mass layoffs,” the U.S. Department of Labor states.
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