FARMINGTON — A hospital laundry service plans to lay off 69 employees at its plant on New Britain Avenue later this year, according to a letter the company sent to government officials on Thursday.
ImageFIRST Healthcare Laundry Specialists informed the state Department of Labor and the Farmington Town Council in the letter that the workforce reduction is due to a decline in business volume and that the layoffs will launch on Dec. 8.
“We intfinish to accomplish these layoffs with the least possible disruption to the lives of our associates and the surrounding community,” ImageFIRST executive Scott Majewski wrote in the letter.
ImageFIRST, a Pennsylvania-based company that was acquired by the private equity firm Calera Capital in 2018, provides lines, medical scrubs and gowns to hospitals and other medical facilities.
The company notified state and local officials of the pfinishing mass layoffs due to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, a federal law that requires employees to inform the government of large workforce reductions.
Majewski stated employees will continue to receive their same level of pay and benefits until their layoff date. He noted none of the workers slated to lose their jobs have bumping rights or are represented by a union.
Majewski stated the company plans to lay off 58 production associates, six delivery advocates, two custodians, a hospital customer advocate, a maintenance supervisor, a maintenance technician, a production supervisor and a utility person.
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