Foster Farms is laying off over 500 employees in Turlock

(FOX40.COM) — Foster Farms is laying disconnected implicit 500 employees and closing respective turkey-processing plants successful Turlock, the institution confirmed to FOX40.com Friday.

A institution typical said it volition "continue to person a important beingness successful the Central Valley" and is not closing its Turlock-based cooked poultry facility.

The typical said the layoffs volition statesman to instrumentality effect May 9 and that employees volition beryllium offered the enactment to transportation to different facilities wrong the company.

The layoffs travel astir 2 and a fractional years aft the institution was acquired from the Foster household by backstage equity steadfast Atlas Holdings.

“We admit that this determination impacts the lives of galore of our committed squad members and does not bespeak their efforts,” Foster Farms CEO Jayson Penn said. “We convey the squad for their contributions, hard work, and ongoing dedication arsenic we enactment them passim this transition.”

According to a representative, nary different facilities volition beryllium affected.