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Chandler leadership responds to recent layoffs
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Northrop Grumman, one of the largest companies with a presence in Chandler, recently announced the potential layoff of 543 employees. Chandler city staff has attempted to connect many employees from that company and others that have recently announced layoffs to new employment openings.
In light of a recent spike of high-profile, private-sector layoffs at Chandler companies, the city of Chandler recently issued a statement.
“It is unfortunate anytime a Chandler or neighboring resident loses their job. Our Economic Development team has been busy with several activities to aid job seekers,” the city’s economic development director, Micah Miranda, said in a recent statement emailed to the Chandler Independent.
Miranda made his statement soon after Northrup Grumman and Panera both filed layoff notices with the Arizona Department of Economic Security. A third firm, Titan Solar, announced it was ceasing operations after failing to close on a sale of the company, according to multiple media reports.
Northrup Grumman, an aerospace company that has its name on multiple buildings in Chandler and in many other places, told DES it could lay off as many as 543 employees.
Panera will permanently close a dough-making facility in west Chandler on Aug. 15, resulting in 64 layoffs.
Titan Solar’s closure impacts an unclear number of employees. One report showed there were 226 employees at the company headquarters in Mesa before it was relocated to Chandler last year; multiple reports show the solar installer had more than 600 employees working in 16 states.
Miranda said there are several options for employees who were let go or who have been informed about their jobs ending soon. These include:
-The city collaborateshere with regional workforce development partners such as Arizona@Work, to host in-person hiring events. One of these events was scheduled for July 17 at a Chandler hotel.
-Northrop Grumman employees will be invited to attend previously planned virtual and in-person hiring events held by Arizona@Work. Miranda said the first of those happened on June 26 at the Mesa East Valley Career Center.
-The city has published a blog featuring 45 “industry-leading” companies looking to fill nearly 1,394 jobs that align with affected positions/employees.
That blog can be found here.
Jason W. Brooks is a News editor for the Daily Independent and the Chandler Independent.
He covers the Chandler area for both yourvalley.net and the monthly print edition while writing for and assisting in the production of the Daily Independent.
Brooks is a well-traveled journalist who has documented life in small American communities in nearly all U.S. time zones.
Born in Washington, D.C. and raised there and in suburban Los Angeles, he has covered community news in California, New Mexico, Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska and northern Arizona.
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