Flint Group is laying off 81 workers at its plant in Elizabethtown , Kentucky
In a March
27 letter to the Kentucky Division of Workforce Development, Melanie Caple, in
human resources with Flint Group, said that the layoffs involved 68 production
people, nine workers from admin and support and four in management, the paper
reported.
The layoffs
are permanent, according to the letter, and are set for on or around June 30.
“While
Flint CPS Ink is not a unionized operation, we do have a workforce reduction
policy that allows bumping of employee to take place; therefore we will work through
the details over the next couple of weeks to notify the specific employees,”
the letter says, according to the paper.
In bumping,
an employee will be offered a lower-paying or lower-level job at a company
that’s cutting the worker.
The letter
also says Flint Group aims to use Right Management to help the laid-off workers
in their job situation, the paper said.
Flint Group
has said the cuts are linked to the company’s move to discontinue the making of
in-house pigments.
“The
structural decline in publication printing ink has led to shrinking demand in
the primary sector served by Flint Group Pigments,” said Steve Dryden, CEO of
CPS Inks, Flint Group’s offset ink business, in a press release.
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