JobsTuesday, November 3
Allstaff is laying off 148 workers at Kenosha's Visual Pak plant on Dec. 31
The Daily Kenosha team
If you or someone you know works through a staffing agency at a Kenosha plant, this one hits close. The Allstaff Group, a Gurnee, Illinois, employment firm, is laying off 148 workers at the Visual Pak plant at 9605 136th Ave., according to a WARN notice. Visual Pak, a Waukegan, Illinois, contract packager and manufacturer, chose a different staffing vendor for the plant.
148Allstaff workers losing their jobs at the Visual Pak plant in Kenosha
The jobs end effective Dec. 31 and will be treated as permanent eliminations.
Source: BizTimes
- Last day: Dec. 31
- Jobs: warehouse, forklift, QA, maintenance, shipping/receiving and more
- Allstaff foresees no new openings for these workers for six months
- Visual Pak and Allstaff reps were not immediately available for comment
Allstaff told the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development it has no other work assignments for these employees. The site isn't closing; the assignment there is ending. The Kenosha layoff is one of six companies' notices in Wisconsin in October.
Wisconsin layoff notices rose from one company in September to six in October
- 6
- companies sent Wisconsin layoff notices in October
- 400+
- workers received those notices
- 1
- company filed a layoff notice in September
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Sources: BizTimes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel