Editor’s Note: This is an updated version of a previous story.
The Metropolitan District Commission in Hartford has notified state labor officials that it will lay off 71 workers, beginning Aug. 1.
But MDC and the quasi state agency that owns the waste-processing plant where the layoffs will occur describes it more like an employment transition.
According to MDC’s WARN notice filing with the state, the layoffs will impact union workers and is related to the loss of a contract MDC currently has with the Connecticut Resource Recovery Agency, or CRRA, to manage the Mid-Connecticut Project waste processing facility on Maxim Road in Hartford.
MDC officials said that contract is set to expire Dec. 31, and CRRA has decided to transfer management of the facility to a private company.
According to CRRA spokesman Paul Nonnemacher, the contract with the plant’s new operator NAES Corp. mandates that all workers at the plant during a specific period be offered their same jobs and pay at the plant with NAES.
MDC, which is a regional supplier of drinking water and a sewage collector, said the layoffs will be completed by the end of the year.
