{"id":217831,"date":"2021-01-27T14:15:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T20:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=217831"},"modified":"2021-01-27T14:49:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T20:49:16","slug":"collins-announces-layoffs-pandemic-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=217831","title":{"rendered":"Collins layoffs, &#8220;minimal&#8221;  Jmstwn impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry__content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-178856\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/CrameratCollins-2019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/CrameratCollins-2019-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/CrameratCollins-2019-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/CrameratCollins-2019.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/CrameratCollins-2019-233x175.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (<a href=\"https:\/\/kwwl.com\/2021\/01\/26\/collins-aerospace-announces-more-layoffs-due-to-covid-19\/\">KWWL<\/a>) &#8212; Collins Aerospace is reporting that more employees are being laid off due to the financial impact of COVID-19 and the hit the aviation business has taken.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A company official says the impact to the Jamestown staff should be \u201cminimal.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the company said that the layoffs were announced on Monday, and impacted employees will receive a separation package.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;Our company continues to experience lower than expected commercial aviation business due to COVID-19. As a result, on Jan. 25, 2021, we announced a second Involuntary Separation Program for U.S. employees. Impacted employees will receive a comprehensive separation package, including outplacement services. These are difficult but necessary decisions to assure that our company is well-positioned for success when the industry recovers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><cite>Collins Aerospace<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In December, Collins Aerospace announced <a href=\"https:\/\/kwwl.com\/2020\/12\/07\/collins-aerospace-laying-off-workers-in-decorah-bellevue\/\">29 positions in Decorah and 36 positions in Bellevue<\/a> would be cut, which took effect on January 2.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s first round of layoffs due to the pandemic came\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kwwl.com\/2020\/07\/30\/employees-laid-off-at-collins-aerospace-due-to-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">at the end of July.<\/a>\u00a0The company later revealed 72 positions were cut from its Cedar Rapids plant\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iowaworkforcedevelopment.gov\/worker-adjustment-and-retraining-notification-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">at the beginning of September.<\/a>\u00a0Collins Aerospace&#8217;s parent company, Raytheon Technologies also announced in September plans\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kwwl.com\/2020\/09\/17\/raytheon-technologies-parent-company-of-collins-aerospace-plans-to-cut-more-than-15000-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to cut more than 15,000 jobs.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Collins Aerospace did not say how many employees will be affected by this round of layoffs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KWWL) &#8212; Collins Aerospace is reporting that more employees are being laid off due to the financial impact of COVID-19 and the hit the aviation business has taken. A company official says the impact to the Jamestown staff should be \u201cminimal.\u201d In a statement, the company said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":217832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217831"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217850,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217831\/revisions\/217850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/217832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}