MORRISVILLE — Lowe’s Cos Inc. plans to close part of its offices in Charlotte and Wilkesboro, and lay off 207 and 12 workers in each office, respectively, according to a filing with the North Carolina Department of Commerce.
The terminations in Lowe’s Charlotte office will be effective on June 4. The termination in its Wilkesboro office will occur between July 16 and January 31, 2020.
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In addition, Lowe’s is permanently relocating 614 positions from its Wilkesboro office to its Morresville office.
The company is also permanently relocating 79 positions from its Wilkesboro office to its Winston-Salem Data Center.
The relocations will occur between June and December 2019.
Founded in 1946, Lowe’s is a Fortune 500 company that operates retail home improvement and appliance stores. Last November, the Mooresville-based company announced that it would close 20 U.S. and 31 Canadian stores by the end of its last fiscal year in February 2019.
Lowe’s currently operates more than 2,200 stores in United States, Canada, and Mexico and has approximately 300,000 employees.
The notice to the state was filed pursuant to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, which must be filed 60 days in advance of a plant closing that affects more than 50 employees in a 30-day period or a mass layoff of at least 500 employees or between 50 to 499 employees if they make up at least one-third of the employer’s workforce.
All North Carolina filings under the WARN Act can be found here. More than 1,000 employees have been laid off in Mecklenburg County in 2019 so far, more than any other county in North Carolina.
This story is from the North Carolina Business News Wire, a service of UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Media and Journalism
