Four companies notify state of layoffs

Several Massachusetts manufacturers notified the state last month that they would be cutting jobs.

In May, Alcatel-Lucent, Pliant Corp., Kronos Inc., and Jevic Transportation Inc. all notified the state Department of Labor that they would be laying off workers in the coming months.

Alcatel-Lucent, the telecommunications firm based in France, will lay off 127 workers at its plant on the Haverhill-North Andover line on July 2. The layoff is the third since December, and the largest since Alcatel-Lucent announced plans to close the plant by the end of the year. Between 60 and 70 workers remain at the plant.

Pliant, a manufacturer of film and flexible packaging products based in Schaumburg, Ill., plans to close its South Deerfield plant and lay off 103 employees before the plant shuts its door for good in December. The company plans to lay off employees in six phases with the first rounds of cuts resulting in eight employees losing their jobs next month. Kronos, a supplier of software for workforce management systems, will discontinue its manufacturing operating unit in Chelmsford and lay off 79 employees starting in July. Jevic Transportation, based in Delanco, N.J., permanently shut down its Oxford facility earlier this month and laid off approximately 88 employees.

Companies must file a worker adjustment and retraining notification to the Department of Labor when they lay off more than 50 workers.
(By Angel Jennings, Globe correspondent)