NCR has publicly disclosed few details about the depth of the Ohio job losses it will cause as a result of the plan the company announced on June 2 to move the world headquarters to Duluth, Ga., near Atlanta, by the end of 2010. The company has steadfastly refused to publicly reveal how many employees it will offer relocation assistance to, or what types of job categories will be shifted to Georgia or left behind in Dayton.
NCR began notifying employees this week about who will be offered relocation assistance. Tulupman declined, in e-mail responses on Tuesday, to disclose any terms of the offers made to employees or the assistance promised to workers who will lose their jobs.
The Montgomery County Department of Job and Family Services has asked NCR to share information about the relocation so that local government can shape its response to provide benefits, including help finding new employment, to workers who will lose their NCR jobs. The department is still awaiting details from NCR, said Ann Stevens, a department spokeswoman.
A reader who identified himself as an employee of NCR’s human resources department was informed that he will lose his job and will receive a week’s pay for each of his five years of service, he wrote in an e-mail to the Dayton Daily News. NCR is hiring an outside company to help handle staffing in Georgia, rather than use existing human-resources staff to handle the job, according to the employee, who asked not to be identified.
NCR also plans to open a Columbus, Ga., manufacturing plant to build automated teller machines, one of the company’s products. NCR has said it plans to create about 870 professional and production jobs there.
Residents of any state are free to apply for those jobs, said Sam Hall, a spokesman for the Georgia Department of Labor, which is helping screen applicants for those jobs. NCR will make the decisions on who it hires.
Jobs for the Columbus, Ga., plant including buyers, human resources and information technology specialists, warehouse supervisors and test engineers, are posted on the Georgia Department of Labor’s Web site at www.dol.state.ga.us, under the “NCR recruitment” banner.
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