Seventy-four employees have agreed to take a voluntary buyout from the decommissioning and demolition contractor at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio.
Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth announced the results of its Self-Select Voluntary Separation Program in a Wednesday email statement.
The voluntary buyout package includes a severance based on years of service and the applicable collective bargaining agreement, the company said in the statement through spokesman Jack Williams. Employees who accepted the deal end their tenure at the former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant Dec. 17.
The company did not immediately comment on what savings might result from the action.
The company announced in October it was looking for up to 75 people to accept the voluntary separation packages. Fluor-BWXT said some workers might not want to work at Portsmouth anymore because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Through Tuesday, Fluor-BWXT has had 86 people test positive so far this year for COVID-19, according to documents obtained by Weapons Complex Monitor.
It is the second such buyout program that Fluor-BWXT has utilized in the past couple of years. In February 2019, the contract reported that 46 employees signed up for buyouts, fewer than the 75 it sought in announcing that effort in December 2018.
