NJ Layoffs: 2,020 People By Spring

Job growth has been steady nationwide for 8 years, but New Jersey has a number of companies that will be showing people the door very soon.

By the end of April, 2,020 jobs will be lost at 11 companies across the state, according to New Jersey's WARN notice for January.

The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988 requires companies with 100 or more employees to provide 60-day advance notifications for plant closings and mass layoffs of employees.

It's not clear when many of these employees received their notices. A WARN notice was posted for Sam's Club job losses in January, even though more than 500 employees across the state lost their jobs that same month. No such notice was posted in December.

On top of that, a Hunterdon County Walmart is closing its doors. The Walmart on Rt. 22 in Readington Township will be closing later this month, and 149 employees will lose their jobs by April, according to information from NJ Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Read more here...

Also, Oyster Creek, the oldest nuclear plant in the United States, will close down in October, more than a year earlier than its original deadline, the plant's owner said. Read more here...

Here are some of the companies and the job losses:

• Allergan, Inc., Madison, March 16, 308 jobs: Pharmaceutical company Allergan says the layoffs come after the company lost exclusive rights for certain products. Drug patents are generally good for 20 years after the invention of a drug. Read more here...
• JCPenney Corporation, Inc., Paramus, March 11, 144 jobs: The JCPenny store at the Westfield Garden State Plaza will close this month. The move is supposed to help JCPenney better compete in the changing marketplace, CEO Marvin R. Ellison said in a statement. Read more here...
• Sam's Club, Linden, Jan. 11, 187 jobs: The Linden Sam's Club closed abruptly last month, the New Jersey Department of Labor said. Nationwide, 63 stores were closed. It was not clear how many employees across the country lost jobs. Up to 12 of the 63 closed stores will be converted into e-commerce centers, the company previously said in statement, in an effort to speed up delivery of online orders. Read more here...
• Sam's Club Budd Lake, Jan. 11, 144 jobs: The Sam's Club closed abruptly last month, the New Jersey Department of Labor said. Some employees might be transferred to other Sam's Club locations, or to nearby Walmarts, the company said in January. They did not say how these transfers might be facilitated, or how many employees would benefit. Read more here...
• Sam's Club Princeton, Jan. 26, 196 jobs: The Sam's Club at the Nassau Park Pavilion off Route 1 closed. "So sad for the employees!! Multi Billion dollar company and can't even tell their employees they will be out of a job," a Patch reader wrote. "I haven't shopped at Walmart for over 10 years and this is one of the many reasons!!" Read more here...
• Sears, Toms River, April 8, 49 jobs: The Sears at Ocean County Mall will be closed by April, one of more than 100 Sears and Kmart stores nationwide that the chain is closing, the company said in an announcement Thursday. "Sears Holdings continues its strategic assessment of the productivity of our Kmart and Sears store base and will continue to right-size our store footprint in number and size," the company said in a news release. Read more here...
• Shiel Holdings, LLC Rockleigh, Jan. 31, 538 jobs: Shiel Medical Laboratory, a clinical lab, laid off workers at its Rockleigh site by the time the business is acquired by Quest Diagnostics later this year, according to nj.com.

Here are the rest:

• MOL (America) Inc., Woodbridge, Match 30, 32 jobs
• McKesson Corporation, Delran, March 31, 102 jobs
• NYK (North America), Inc. Secaycys 03/31/2018 75
• PHH Home Loans, LLC, Mt. Laurel, March 23 78 jobs
• RAB Lighting Northvale, March 9, 121 jobs
• Teva Pharmaceuticals Parsippany, Jan. 4, 46 jobs.

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