FedEx is closing a third-party logistics operation in Coppell and laying off nearly 900 workers, according to an official WARN notice sent to the Texas Workforce Commission.
The Memphis-based shipping giant’s logistics facility is located on Sandy Lake Road, in an industrial area north of Old Town Coppell near Highway 121, and currently employs 856 people, according to the notice. The employees will be terminated in phases, with around 60 workers losing their jobs in January and subsequent layoffs coming in the following months. FedEx expects the entire operation to permanently shut down by the end of April, according to the legally required state notice.
In a statement, Adam Snyder, a FedEx representative, emphasized that employees received advance notice and that some will be eligible for other FedEx roles, including at nearby facilities.
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“We are committed to supporting affected employees through job placement assistance, relocation aid, or severance, as applicable,” he added.
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The Coppell operation has served as part of FedEx Supply Chain, a major logistics operation that serves third-party companies throughout the U.S. and Canada. The move to shut down the operation was “necessitated solely by our customer’s decision to transition its business to a new location that will be managed by a new third-party logistics provider,” Joel Frierson, a FedEx manager, wrote in the WARN notice.
Snyder declined to comment on which company the operation had been serving.
The impacted FedEx employees are not unionized, the letter added, and “will be paid wages and benefits through their last day of employment.”
The layoff announcement comes about three and a half years after FedEx hosted a job fair to hire at the site, and amid a broader economic cooling trend for the Texas economy.
North Texas, which for years has ranked among the country’s fastest growing regions and brightest corporate success stories, has also been impacted: In recent weeks companies ranging from Colonial, a Fort Worth-based bank, to Tekni-Plex, a Dallas-based health care products company, have also announced layoffs that together number in the hundreds.
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