For more information To learn about the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce's planned Web site to help ex-NCR Corp. employees find new jobs, contact Chris Wimsatt at (937) 226-8293 or cwimsatt@dacc.org
DAYTON — NCR Corp. plans to lay off nearly 600 people as it moves its corporate headquarters from Dayton to Duluth, Ga., according to a filing with the state.
NCR currently employs about 1,250 people in Dayton, but executives haven’t said how many local workers will be relocated from Dayton to Georgia.
NCR, in a letter to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, said jobs in the accounting, human resources, information technology, marketing and sales departments are among those to be eliminated. Plans call for the company to begin eliminating jobs Sept. 30 and to continue doing so through the final quarter of 2010.
In the July 29 letter, NCR told state officials it will offer severance and outplacement services to employees who stay with the company until their scheduled termination date.
Those targeted for layoffs will receive written notice from NCR 60 days before losing their jobs, the letter states.
The Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce is compiling information for a Web site for ex-NCR employees to post their contact information and work history, and for a database of companies which are looking for these workers. The Web site is to be up and running Aug. 14, said Chris Wimsatt, the chamber’s director of economic development.
The organization also wants to encourage ex-NCR employees who want to start their own businesses, Wimsatt said.
Sandy S. McElfresh of Dayton said she worked more than 19 years for NCR in financial services until NCR hired out the work to Accenture, transferring her to that company in 2003. McElfresh, who was laid off June 5 and is still looking for work, said she called the Chamber of Commerce to make sure that she and other ex-NCR employees who wound up working for contractors won’t be overlooked in job placement efforts.
“I’m not trying to take anything away from my friends at NCR,” McElfresh said Friday, July 31. “I just want to be given every opportunity.”
The chamber’s effort will include McElfresh and others in similar circumstances, Wimsatt said.
NCR executives already have notified some employees that they will lose their jobs.
Peter Tulupman, NCR spokesman, wrote in an e-mail that the company will not comment on its filing. NCR will work with the Montgomery County Job and Family Services Department to coordinate job placement assistance, he said.
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