SSC Service Solutions, a custodial and maintenance service company for schools headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, will terminate 105 employees in Rocky Mount on April 12 due to loss of contract, according to a WARN Notice filed with the N.C. Department of Commerce.

The company has not been awarded a contract to continue services for Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools.

Sixty-three of the 105 employees are full time and 42 are part time. All are custodial workers.

SSC also provides services of Durham Public Schools. SSC and its subcontractor Premiere Building Maintenance employ over 290 custodians, according to The Herald-Sun.

SSC, founded in 1969, is a private business providing custodial, ground and maintenance outsourcing services for educational institutions in the United States.

Seth Ferriell, the company’s president since 2014, studied finance at the University of Kentucky. Before becoming president, he was the higher education division president for SSC.

The company is part of Compass Group USA Inc., a food service and support services company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Due to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, companies are required to submit WARN notices to the North Carolina Department of Commerce to announce pending layoffs.

So far in 2018, 1,465 North Carolina workers have lost their jobs through layoffs accounted by WARN notices.

North Carolina’s 2018 WARN summary can be found here.