Grumman to lay off 44 workers in Melville
The remaining 57 Northrop Grumman employees, mostly engineering and program-office personnel, will be transferred to the company's Bethpage location, spokesman Jack Martin Jr. said after the company announced layoffs on July 7, 2011. Credit: Howard Schnapp, 2011
Defense contractor Northrop Grumman plans to lay off 44 employees as part of a previously reported plan to close its Melville manufacturing facility, the company confirmed Thursday.
The remaining 57 employees, mostly engineering and program-office personnel, will be transferred to the company's Bethpage location, spokesman Jack Martin Jr. said. The layoffs occurred among employees in manufacturing and manufacturing-related areas and include machinists, wirers and technicians; their work will shift to Northrop Grumman's Baltimore operation.
In March, the company confirmed the layoffs but wouldn't say how many it planned. Northrop Grumman listed the number of layoffs in a WARN notice dated July 5. Under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification act, a company with at least 50 full-time employees has to file a 90-day notice ahead of a mass layoff or closing.
The Melville layoffs will begin in late September and continue through the scheduled closing in November 2012.
The Melville location built naval radars and surveillance-tracking products, including shipboard radars to detect incoming missiles.
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