MetLife, which has major operations in Bloomfield, said this week it is restructuring operations there and terminating 61 employees, effective Dec. 31.
In a letter to the Connecticut Department of Labor, Beth Noonan, MetLife’s human resources director for global operations, said the restructuring “is expected to be permanent.”
Four hundred employees will remain at the Bloomfield location Jan. 1 after layoffs are complete, said MetLife Spokesperson Kayla Goodwin.
None of the affected employees are represented by a union or entitled to bumping rights, Noonan said.
“After evaluating how to service a portion of our business we will not be retaining, the decision was made to eliminate the roles currently servicing this business,” Goodwin said in an email. “These decisions are not a reflection on the valuable contributions of the affected employees, and all will be eligible for severance pay and benefits, including outplacement services.”
According to the list accompanying the DOL notice, the largest numbers of layoffs are for claims and case specialists, at 11, and 10 respectively.
On Wednesday, the company reported large losses for the third quarter.
For the three months ended Sept. 30, MetLife posted a net loss of $87 million, or 8 cents per share, compared to net income of $571 million, or 51 cents per share, in the year-ago period.
“We will be reaching out to the company to offer workforce re-employment services to the affected employees,” DOL Spokesperson Nancy Steffens said.
CORRECTION: A previous version of this story reported MetLife posted net income of $87 million; it has been corrected as a net loss.
