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Layoffs Set to Begin at South Jersey Progresso Plant

A South Jersey Progresso soup plant is still scheduled to close this summer, impacting dozens of workers who received WARN notices last week.

General Mills, the Minnesota-based parent company of Progresso, will close the Vineland, Cumberland County, plant this summer as originally planned.

WARN layoff notices were sent to about 65 employees last Friday, Kelsey Roemhildt, General Mills spokeswoman, told the Philadelphia Business Journal on Wednesday.

"There are 270 employees who will be working at the plant that did not receive WARN notices last week," Roemhildt said. "The approximate 65 employees who received their formal 60 day WARN notification per federal and state requirement will no longer work at the plant after those 60 days.

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