CDA to Lay Off Almost 150 Workers Around Charlotte

4/13/19

By Jacquelyn Melinek, NCBIZNews

CDA Inc., which manufactures and supplies disc media, flash media, and micro-functional solutions, has issued a notice on Tuesday for 148 to be laid off at two locations in Charlotte and one in Pineville, North Carolina.

The Charlotte-based company, which was founded in 2000, is permanently closing all three facilities due to economic conditions and plans to lay off all employees on June 8, according to letters from Chief Restructuring Officer David Richeson to the North Carolina Department of Commerce.

Ninety-six of the workers in Charlotte are in production. In Pineville, there are nine workers losing their jobs.

CDA has offices around the world ranging from Germany and Austria to India and Australia. The company was founded in 2000.

The affected employees ranged from accounting to maintenance and the most affected group was production with 105 employees being laid off.

The company was formerly known as Optical Experts Manufacturing Inc. and changed its name to CDA in late 2014.

There are no further comments available at this time.

The notice was filed to pursuant to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, which must be filed 60 days in advance of a plant closing that affects more than 50 employees in a 30-day period or a mass layoff of at least 500 employees or between 50 to 499 employees if they make up at least one-third of the employer’s workforce.

All North Carolina filings under the WARN Act can be found here.