CHICAGO (Reuters) -GE Aerospace will lay off nearly half of the employees at a company site in New York state, according to a filing with the state.
In an employee adjustment and retraining notice filed Wednesday, the company said it expects to lay off 72 of its 152 employees in Schenectady, New York. The layoffs are to begin on December 31.
The affected employees belong to a services unit that was once part of an undivided GE, a company official said. GE Aerospace, which focuses on making and servicing jet engines, inherited the unit after GE’s spinoff in April.
The official attributed the layoffs to the spinoff and said employees had been notified that their positions with the company would end at the end of this year.
GE Aerospace has offered affected employees a “comprehensive” severance package, including support for the transition to new jobs, the official added.
The message stated that workers at the plant are not unionized.
