But December is an especially tough time to learn that the holidays will need to be lean, for the foreseeable future. We might talk here about better, more rational incentives than the abomination of these proposed tax packages -- to discourage off-shoring -- to Ireland, and elsewhere, but the truth is (like GE's 12,000 employee layoff announcement in its power unit, earlier this week). . . there is not a whole lot that can (reasonably, and swiftly) be done about it, with a paralyzed (but nominally single-party controlled) Congress, and an utterly clueless President (and therein lies the biggest obstacle).
Here is the local report, on Kenilworth's subsidiary in North Carolina:
. . . .A subsidiary of Merck & Co. Inc. plans to lay off 50 employees and shutter its south Charlotte facility.
The dismissals will happen at Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.’s Charlotte Service Center between mid-February and June 2018 as it discontinues its global controllers unit at 8050 Microsoft Way in Charlotte.
Those to be laid off include eight employees of the human resources unit, which is also housed in the Charlotte Service Center. An undisclosed number of employees remaining in the human resources unit will be transferred to another Charlotte Merck facility. The location of that second facility also wasn’t disclosed. . . .
“The planned actions are expected to be permanent,” Lee writes in the Dec. 5 letter to the N.C. Department of Commerce. Lee notes that the notice was written as required by [WARN,] the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. . . .
This is truly unfortunate news, for a Friday. My sincere and empathetic thoughts and meditations are with the affected families. Even so, onward. . . still -- as a final oral argument looms (this time in the Fourth Circuit) before the heading to the Supremes -- on Muslim Ban 3.0 this morning.
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