At the opening of the 2024 legislative brief in Olympia, Governor Inslee described the state of Washington and its economy as developing and colorful and attempted to be very optimistic. Recent data on job security turns out to contradict this.
Under a new Washington state law, businesses that employ more than 100 employees in total will have to send a Notice of Worker Retraining, or WARNING, to ESD in the event of closures or layoffs. These alerts allowed the media to keep up to date with a much closer look at the economic scenario.
There have been many alerts for tech-related jobs on the West Side in King County since the fall.
Now, 3 more have been issued this week. Among them is Unity Technologies, a foreign company with operations in the United States, Canada, England, France and other countries. The company deals with the virtual generation, adding games, cinema, and other similar generation fields. Its WARN alert says 50 employees will be laid off this week at its Bellevue, Washington, plant.
Also, Flexe Inc. a company that helps businesses locate and rent warehouse space, continues to shed workers in its Seattle-area operations. The company, which began in Seattle, has laid off another 38 percent of its workers there, a total of 99. According to Geekwire, this follows a 33 percent cut late last year.
The third WARN alert came from REXAM or Ball Can Company. They manufacture, among other products, aluminum cans for breweries and other beverage companies. According to packagingdrive. com, a large part of these layoffs are due to the slowdown due to the downturn. in Bud’s sales Light. La alert indicates that its plant in Kent, Washington, will close, leading to the layoff of 121Array. Last year, they also fired in St. Louis and Birmingham, Alabama.
Overall, those WARN alerts result in the loss of a total of 270 tasks. This is in addition to the many recent cuts in tech tasks in the Puget Sound area.
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Three new job security alerts from WARN show that 275 tech and high-profile jobs will disappear in the state.
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At the opening of the brief 2024 legislative consultation in Olympia, Governor Inslee described Washington state and its economy as developing and colorful and tried to be overly optimistic. Recent data on job security contradicts this.
Under a new Washington state law, businesses that employ more than 100 employees in total will have to send a Notice of Worker Retraining, or WARNING, to ESD in the event of closures or layoffs. These alerts allowed the media to keep up to date with a much closer look at the economic scenario.
There have been many alerts for tech-related jobs on the West Side in King County since the fall.
Now, three more were issued this week. They included Unity Technologies, an international company with locations in the US, Canada, England, France and other nations. The company deals with digital tech, including gaming, film, and other related tech areas. Their WARN Alert indicates 50 workers will be let go at their Bellevue, WA operation this week.
In addition, Flexe Inc. , a company that helps businesses locate and lease storage space, continues to lay off staff at its Seattle-area operations. The company, which started operations in Seattle, laid off another 38 percent of its employees. for a total of 99. According to Geekwire, this follows a 33% relief at the end of last year.
The third WARN alert came from REXAM or Ball Can Company. They manufacture, among other products, aluminum cans for breweries and other beverage companies. According to packagingdrive. com, a large part of these layoffs are due to the slowdown due to the downturn. in Bud’s sales Light. La alert indicates that its plant in Kent, Washington, will close, leading to the layoff of 121Array. Last year, they also fired in St. Louis and Birmingham, Alabama.
Overall, those WARN alerts result in the loss of a total of 270 tasks. This is in addition to the many recent cuts in tech tasks in the Puget Sound area.