WILMINGTON - ABX Air said it will lay off 158 employees, starting immediately and extending through Jan. 14.
Impacted workers include hourly employees, salaried employees and unionized aircraft pilots.
The layoff notice was provided to Wilmington Mayor David Raizk in compliance with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act of 1988, which requires employers to give official notice to closely connected government officials of a pending mass layoff.
Thirty-three pilots will lose their cockpit seats - two of them captains and 31 of them first officers. According to the WARN notice, these pilots are the lowest individuals on the current pilot seniority list.
Fifty sorters are being cut in this round of layoffs, as well as 11 lead sorters and two sort supervisors.
Thirty-nine ramp loaders are getting laid off permanently, along with six lead ramp loaders who will be out of a job and a ramp supervisor.
Other ABX employees losing their paychecks include a master instructor, two aircraft dispatchers, two ramp tower coordinators, two ground operations trainers, a ground administrative office assistant and a service performance analyst.
Also looking for new jobs soon will be three Cushman drivers, a Haz-Mat sorter, a lead Haz sorter, a transportation lead and a yard management dispatcher.
