Three North Texas companies announced significant layoffs, adding up to nearly 1,500 job losses, according to WARN Act filings registered Tuesday with the Texas Workforce Commission, including more than 1,000 workers from one local healthcare company.
Conifer Health Solutions, a North Texas-based subsidiary of Tenet Healthcare Corp., is laying off 1,037 employees. The workers are located across the United States but report to Tenet’s corporate headquarters in North Dallas and will lose their jobs beginning in early November. The employees are not unionized and do not have bumping rights.
“Conifer is taking this action due to restructuring and technology initiatives related to, among other things, no longer providing services to CommonSpirit Health after October 30,” Stephanie Wheeler, Conifer’s HR director, wrote in the mandatory notice letter. “This layoff is expected to be permanent.”
CommonSpirit Health is a Chicago-based Catholic nonprofit healthcare organization that provides patient care in dozens of states around the country, including in Texas, where it’s affiliated with several hospital systems. It was unclear exactly what services Conifer has been providing to CommonSpirit or what Conifer roles are now being cut. A representative for Conifer did not immediately respond on Wednesday to questions about the layoffs from The Dallas Morning News.
The Texas Family Initiative, a Dallas-based nonprofit that provides foster care services, also notified the commission that it was laying off more than 300 employees in late October. Those workers include 141 case managers and 52 support workers as well as dozens of supervisors and smaller numbers of a variety of other roles, including court liaisons, executives and specialists.
Some of those employees are remote but report to the nonprofit’s headquarters near Love Field, according to the notice letter. The layoff was the result of a state decision to transfer a contract, Kris Naylor, the group’s president, wrote to the commission. Naylor added that “a substantial majority” of the employees at the facility are expected to be employed by different agencies that succeeded the contract.
Eagles Delivery, a logistics company that delivers packages for Amazon, also notified the commission this month that it’s closing a facility in Roanoke in Denton County and laying off 115 people. Those employees are losing their jobs this week.
“Please note,” Marcos Chacon, the owner of Eagles Delivery, wrote to the commission, “We only learned of this action from our only client in the last 5 business days. This was unforeseeable, and it was simply not possible for us to provide more advance notice of this action.”
Those job losses follow layoff announcements for more than 160 Amazon-affiliated logistics workers last month. Hundreds of DFW Airport shuttle drivers and other workers also received layoff notices recently because of an expiring contract, although many are expected to be hired by the airport’s incoming operator.
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