Source:  Lisa M. Keefe, MEATINGPLACE.COM, 5/4/11

North Carolina chicken processor Townsends plans to lay off 145 employees at a facility in Siler City, local media in that state is reporting.

The company reportedly filed a notice Monday with the state Department of Commerce in accordance with the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. Those notifications are not posted online.
The WARN notice said the layoffs amount to half the employees at the plant located in Siler City, according to the News & Observer newspaper, covering the Raleigh-Research Triangle area of North Carolina. The layoffs will occur in early July, the paper says, according to the WARN notice. Townsends employs about 1,200 people in Chatham County.

Townsends filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December, and its assets were auctioned.  Three weeks later, Omtron, an affiliate of the Ukrainian company Agroholding Avangard, bought the N.C. operations, the company headquarters and other assets for $24.9 million.

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