Sears is laying off about 250 employees at its Hoffman Estates, Ill.-based headquarters, but there are “no current plans to close the entire facility,” the retailer said in a notice filed with the state, the Chicago Tribune reported. The retailer, which emerged from bankruptcy in February, sent a letter to the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity that said it is implementing a permanent workforce reduction over a 14-day period, beginning Oct. 28. The terminated employees are not represented by a union, the company said in the Aug. 29 letter to the state. Sears had 4,411 employees in Hoffman Estates and its Loop satellite office as of January 2017, according to state filings. In June 2017, Sears told the Chicago Tribune that it had fallen short of the 4,250 employees needed to remain eligible for state tax credits. Since then, Sears has announced the elimination of more than 1,100 jobs, mostly in Hoffman Estates. The company said it had 68,000 total employees, including 32,000 full-time workers, when it filed for bankruptcy last fall.
