Layoffs At Tolko

Tolko has laid off five percent of their salaried employees across their Western Canada Operations.

Operations Manager Jim Baskerville says the layoffs are separate from the three hundred employees still on a work curtailment in Kelowna, Armstrong and Lumby.

"We have operations in BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. So in total about 700 employees- five percent is about 32. Ten of which were in the Okanagan area of operation."

Baskerville says the remaining salaried employees are being asked to take a salary reduction for up to an 18 month period.

He says, meanwhile some workers may soon be called back to work at the Armstrong facility on a temporary basis.

Starlee Speers Astral Media Radio (Vernon)