Kodak to Cut More Jobs in NY

Some of you may recall our earlier coverage about Kodak’s layoffs in the state of New York but for those of you missed out here is an excerpt from that article that will get you up to speed:

“It looks like more job losses are coming to the workers of The Eastman Kodak company, and this time almost 100 workers are being given the boot as the company stops making a line of products. The products in question are digital cameras for computers, the kind that you might find in you local department store or discount retailer. The layoffs, which will happen primarily in the state of New York, will impact 91 of the workers from a variety of facilities. The bulk of the job losses will come from the Manitou Road facility, with eight cuts from the Eastman Park facility, 11 at the Kodak office on State Street and only two from the Kodak Research Labs on Lake Avenue.”

Well it looks like more layoffs are coming to the workers in New York State. The company issued a layoff notice to the state. The upshot of this notice is that the company will be getting rid of 107 more workers in that state alone. That means that this second round of layoffs will qualify as a mass layoff action. While the notice does tell us that the layoffs will come primarily from two facilities in the state, one of which will be the Manitou Road facility, we do not have more details about the kinds of jobs that will be cut and what kind of benefits, if any, the soon to be displaced workers will be give in order to compensate them for loosing their jobs in this market.

These layoffs are part of a long-term plan by the company. Kodak expects, when all is said and done to be rid of between 400 and 500 jobs by the end of the next six months or so. Most of these job cuts are a direct result of the company deciding to sack its digital camera operations completely and focus on other areas of its business in order to remain profitable in the current market.

New York is, Of course not the only state to bear the brunt of Kodak’s fiscal woes. The state also cut workers in Ohio recently. For those of you missed out on that coverage on those recent cuts:

“Eastman Kodak Co. has informed the Ohio government that it will lay off 66 employees by April 19.

A letter dated Monday and carrying the information was sent to Ohio’s Department of Job & Family Services. The letter indicated that the layoffs would be permanent and would be followed with more layoffs later.”

At the current moment the company has given no indication that any of these jobs cuts will be dealt with by anything other than direct job cuts. Alternative methods, such as attrition or a voluntary layoff package, have not be discussed at this time.