Maryland: Healthcare software developer Edaptive Systems announces mass layoff

One of the Baltimore area’s biggest software developers, Owings Mills-based healthcare information company Edaptive Systems, is laying off 60 of its more than 300 employees. The company notified the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation of the layoffs, which take effect June 30. The company employs more than 300 people.

Caterpillar to cut 670 jobs

Caterpillar says it plans to close five plants and trim about 670 jobs in Illinois and several other states, in the latest phase of a larger cost-cutting campaign announced last year.

 

 The mining and construction equipment company will cut about 230 jobs for office and production workers at a major manufacturing campus in East Peoria, Illinois, where Caterpillar says it's consolidating some manufacturing and transferring some work to outside contractors. Another 120 employees there will

be placed on indefinite layoff.

 

 Caterpillar said other consolidation efforts will add some jobs at a facility in Pontiac, Illinois, while cutting more positions in Thomasville, Georgia; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Prentice, Wisconsin and other sites.

Tyson Foods to close two plants, cut 880 jobs

(Reuters) - Tyson Foods Inc (TSN), the biggest U.S. meat processor, said it would stop operations at two of its plants in the United States, affecting about 880 employees.

The company said it expects to cease operations at a pepperoni plant in Jefferson, Wisconsin and a prepared foods facility in Chicago, Illinois during the second half of the year ending Oct. 1.

The closures would affect about 880 employees, including about 480 at Chicago and about 400 at Jefferson, Tyson said on Thursday.

Arkansas: Walmart to cut 450 jobs at its headquarters

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. CEO Doug McMillon said 450 people will be laid off at the company’s headquarters in Bentonville, Ark., according to a memo sent to all Wal-Mart staff today.

“After months of evaluation, we’ve concluded there is an opportunity to better position our Home Office teams to move with speed and purpose,” McMillon wrote in the memo. The company is at “an important time in our history,” he said. “This in part means pulling back in some areas and investing in others.”

Laid-off employees will receive 60 days of pay, plus two weeks of pay for every year of employment with the company, said a Wal-Mart (WMT) spokesman. Job search assistance will be available for those who want it, he said.