plant closing
Manufacturing facility termination
Plant closing is the permanent shutdown of a factory, manufacturing facility, or other industrial workplace.
The term appears frequently in labor and economic contexts, often carrying implications of job losses and community impact: The plant closing left hundreds unemployed.
In U.S. law, the WARN Act requires advance notice of large-scale plant closings.
- shutdownCessation of operations
- layoffTermination without cause
- factoryIndustrial production facility
- factory floorManufacturing workspace area
- unemploymentBeing without paid work
downsizing · workers · severance · outsourcing · manufacturing · going out of business · jobs · union · pink slip · final paycheck · last day · relocation · bankruptcy · assembly line · rust belt · workforce · terminated · idle
- business failurebankruptcy court, insolvency, liquidation, shutdown, collapse
plant closinghiring spree
Intensive period of employment
capital investment · business expansion · scaling up · reindustrialization · reshoring
plant, closing, plants, planted, planting, planter, planters, plantation, plantations