Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, Inc. Layoff
SOURCEOFFICIAL FILINGPennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry· filed February 1, 2025View the filing ↗
What we know
Location: Hazle Township, PA (Luzerne County).
A WARN notice for this layoff is recorded on February 1, 2025.
Disclosed through an official WARN filing with the PA state workforce agency.
Summary
Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate is closing its Hazle Township (Hazleton) plant, with a state filing indicating 102 jobs will be lost by May. The company said production will shift to other North American Cargill facilities and that it will offer severance benefits and job placement assistance to impacted employees. Cargill has owned the facility since 2015 and noted this decision affects the 102 employees at the Hazleton facility; the company previously announced plans to cut 8,000 jobs company-wide. Local Lititz and Mount Joy facilities were mentioned as possible destinations for production, but Cargill declined to confirm whether jobs would move to those sites.
Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, Inc. disclosed this layoff in an official WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) notice recorded by the PA state workforce agency on February 1, 2025. The notice covers 102 employees in Hazle Township, PA (Luzerne County).
That is roughly 0.6% of the 16,000 people Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, Inc. employs.
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