On August 16, Nestlé USA submitted Worker Readjustment and Retraining Notifications (WARN) to labor authorities in at least five states including Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Washington and Florida. The company is laying off 85 employees at a Phoenix distribution center
The layoffs, which will reach roughly 4,000, begin taking effect October 18 and continue through the end of the year, according to the notices.
Nestlé announced in May that it will “exit its company-owned frozen Direct-Store-Delivery (DSD) network for its Pizza and Ice Cream businesses and will transition to a warehouse model.”