{"id":41913,"date":"2019-08-19T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/nestle-usas-kent-outlet-to-lay-off-67-workers\/"},"modified":"2019-08-19T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T21:30:00","slug":"nestle-usas-kent-outlet-to-lay-off-67-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/nestle-usas-kent-outlet-to-lay-off-67-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Nestle USA&#8217;s Kent outlet to lay off 67 workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nestle USA in Kent is laying off 67 workers as the company shuts down its direct-to-store delivery network in favor of a warehouse model.<\/p>\n<p>The layoffs begin to take effect Oct. 18, according to the Employment Security Department, which posted the closure last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Virginia-based company announced the changes to its business model in May. The move means a loss of about 4,000 jobs, according to media reports.<\/p>\n<p>The reductions represent about 8.3 percent of the USA division&rsquo;s 48,000-employee workforce, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Nestle said a warehouse model has become an industry standard for major food companies looking to trim costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nestle USA in Kent is laying off 67 workers as the company shuts down its direct-to-store delivery network in favor of a warehouse model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-41913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41913"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}