Central Iowa-based appliance giant Maytag started eliminating salaried positions today in response to the company’s August 1st buy-out of rival Amana Appliances.
Maytag spokesman Jim Powell, in Newton, says employees in the major appliance division have been told up to 225 salaried jobs will be eliminated by year’s end. There are now about four-thousand-600 jobs in that division, including the various locations of Maytag and Amana.
There are operations in ten cities plus service, sales and distribution offices around the nation. Still, Powell says the majority of the jobs being cut are in Newton and Amana. About 60 of the 14-hundred salaried jobs in Newton and 70 of one-thousand-80 jobs will be cut. Powell says -no- hourly production workers are being fired and the company is -not- lowering production levels at any facilities. Some of the employees who were fired this morning had more than 35 years with the company.
