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Project's Suspension Forces International Engineering Firm to Reduce Staff

KANSAS CITY, MO-Black & Veatch will lay off 49 employees after a power plant project in the Aisa-Pacific region is suspended. The engineering firm has 3,500 of its 9,000 employees in Kansas City.

By Judie Burkhalter | Updated on January 05, 2001

KANSAS CITY, MO-International engineering firm Black & Veatch will lay off 49 employees effective immediately. Black & Veatch has 9,000 employees in 90 offices around the world. All of the layoffs are in Kansas City, where the company employs about 3,500.

The company explained the layoffs were due to the suspension of an undisclosed power plant project in the Asia-Pacific region. After suspension of the Asian project, employees were shifted to other projects, but the company decided layoffs were needed. “When a contract is suspended, we have very little choice but to reduce staff to meet diminished work requirements,” said Chairman and Chief Executive Len Rodman.

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