Earlier this week, the employee showed KOAT.com the layoff notification, which said the worker’s last day would be Dec. 31. The notice also said such “involuntary separations” would be permanent, and that the end of the year is the expected date for “site closure or consolidation,” according to the report.
New Mexico and Rio Rancho officials have not been notified of the site shutting down, according to the Albuquerque Journal.
Intel has refrained from commenting on the situation. “Nothing has changed as far as that official [company] announcement,” Intel spokeswoman Natasha Martell Jackson told the Albuquerque Journal.
In April, Intel said it plans to cut 11 percent of its global workforce, which equates to approximately 12,000 jobs. Shortly thereafter, Intel employees in New Mexico and Washington began to worry about the future of their jobs.
Intel’s Rio Rancho site, which opened in 1980, has reduced its workforce from 3,300 employees in 2013 to 1,900 today.
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