Illinois – Honeywell layoffs – Plant shut down for up to 15 months

Leaving town to find a job: hundreds of local families face a new reality Thursday after one of the area’s largest employers makes it official. The plant shut down for up to 15 months, the majority of the workforce laid off.

Many of those employees were already out of a job after the Metropolis Honeywell plant laid them off without warning back in May.

The plant manager sent a letter to all employees at the Metropolis plant.

It states after a Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspection, the company continues to evaluate upgrades to ensure the facility is prepared for a natural disaster.

The completion of those upgrades could shut down the plant for 12 to 15 months.

That means no jobs for 228 of the 334 employees during that period.

Last week, lots of people feared the plant may never re-open or at least not at full capacity. In the letter, the plant manager indicated the reason for the shutdown was to evaluate necessary upgrades and make those upgrades…

via Honeywell letter explains layoffs.