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Chicago-based aerospace and defense company said last week it
would eliminate an unspecified number of IT workers through
involuntary layoffs. The state Employment Security Department
said late Wednesday that it had received notice of 211 layoffs
planned by the company.
Boeing is slashing costs as it battles for sales with European
rival Airbus and tries to widen its profit margins to mid-teens
by the end of the decade, from 7.9 percent in the first quarter.
Boeing did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The company has said that the IT layoffs include workers in
Washington state, but they are not from its commercial airplanes
division.
It wasn't immediately clear how many of the company's IT workers
in other states also faced layoffs. Boeing has said that the
layoffs include management and non-management workers and were
being made across the company.
Separately, Boeing is using voluntary layoffs to cut about 4,000
positions by mid-year and up to 8,000 by year-end at its
commercial airplanes division.
(Editing by Bernadette Baum)
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