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What Schneider Electric layoffs have meant for employees

When Schneider Electric has announced a US closing or consolidation, it has more than once said where the work was going. The Peru, Indiana jobs were moving to other US facilities and to Monterrey, Mexico, WRTV reported in October 2019. In Foxboro, Massachusetts, home of the old Foxboro Company that came to Schneider with Invensys in 2014, the company said in 2020 that manufacturing jobs lost there would be absorbed in other North American locations, including Mexico, the Sun Chronicle reported. Leesport, Pennsylvania's production was set to move to the company's plant in Seneca, South Carolina, according to media reports Evertiq summarized, though the company hadn't said whether any Leesport employees would go with it. If your site is closing, where its work is headed is worth learning early, since that decides whether a Schneider plant in the US is taking it at all.

Seneca, where Leesport's production was headed, has since been named for growth. It was one of two South Carolina sites where South Carolina's governor announced new Schneider jobs in June 2024. In March 2025 the company said it would put $700 million into its US operations through 2027 and expected more than 1,000 jobs across eight sites in Texas, Tennessee, Ohio, North Carolina, Massachusetts and Missouri, Manufacturing Dive reported. The same report described a push to locally source and produce roughly 90% of sales in each region, and said much of Schneider's North American production was in Mexico. So in the same few years, a closing at one Schneider site sat beside announced hiring at others. If you'd consider relocating, the South Carolina announcement names its two plants, Seneca and Hopkins, while the 2025 plan lists the states its eight sites are in.

Several of Schneider's site cuts came in pieces. Massachusetts' fiscal 2022 WARN report lists seven Foxboro entries with layoff dates from September 2021 to April 2022, five of them numbered as the fifth through ninth notice, each with its own small count. WRTV reported in the fall of 2019 that Peru's layoffs were coming in waves, with another 31 people due to go just before Thanksgiving. At Tualatin, Veris's WARN letter sets dates title by title, from assemblers and material handlers to the plant general manager, between October 31, 2026 and March 31, 2027. So a notice at one Schneider site can carry dates months apart for different jobs, and the Tualatin letter calls its dates anticipated and says any change will be communicated separately.

The Peru and Tualatin records describe different arrangements. At Peru the workers had a union, the Machinists, according to the Associated Press story WFYI ran, and Schneider's own later statement described the closing and the severance as matters it worked out with that union. Tualatin's workers aren't represented by a union and won't have bumping rights, the letter says, so nobody there can displace a more junior colleague from a job because of the closing. It promises the pay and benefits due them as Veris employees until their employment ends.

Outside the US the shape is the same. Schneider said the factory closing near Ringsted, Denmark was intended to strengthen competitiveness and consolidate production elsewhere in Europe, Eurofound recorded, and local authorities, including Ringsted's job center, committed to helping affected employees find new work.

If your job is in Tualatin, Oregon unemployment benefits explains how Oregon handles a claim. For Foxboro, Andover or the Boston headquarters, where the company said in 2020 it expected 1,300 Massachusetts employees by the end of 2021, the Massachusetts unemployment benefits page does the same.

A sourced history of Schneider Electric layoffs

• September 2026, Veris notice to close Tualatin, Oregon facility

  Veris Industries LLC by Schneider Electric told Oregon the Tualatin closing would be permanent and would affect all employees, with separations beginning October 31, 2026, Veris's WARN letter says.

• January 2026, Ringsted, Denmark factory closing announced

  Schneider announced it would close its factory in Benløse near Ringsted with 132 job losses, consolidating production at its other European plants in a transition expected to end by spring 2027, Eurofound recorded.

• 2022, Clovis, California production facility closing

  Schneider was closing a production facility in Clovis and laying off 90 workers, The Business Journal reported in January 2022.

• 2020, Foxboro Company campus consolidation

  Schneider planned to empty the old Foxboro Company campus by the end of 2021 and consolidate at its Cocasset Building in town, cutting 130 jobs, mostly in light manufacturing or assembly, the Sun Chronicle reported.

• March 2019, Leesport, Pennsylvania plant closing

  Schneider was closing its Leesport plant and eliminating 231 jobs, Evertiq reported, with the closing due by the end of June, according to the media reports it cited.

• February 2019, Peru, Indiana Square D plant closing

  Schneider said it would close its Square D plant in Peru, which makes switchgear and switchboard apparatus, affecting 306 workers, the Associated Press reported in a story WFYI carried. The company had cut more than 120 jobs there since 2017.

What to do if you're laid off from Schneider Electric

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Schneider Electric's biggest hubs: California, Massachusetts, Oregon, Indiana. Somewhere else? Every state is here.
• Apply for financial and hardship assistance. Unemployment supplements income, but food benefits, health coverage and utility help are often available as well. Here's some of what Schneider Electric's hub states run: California, Massachusetts, Oregon, Indiana, and every other state is here.
• Mind the health insurance window. Losing coverage opens a 60-day special enrollment period, and an ACA plan usually beats unsubsidized COBRA. Compare your options before the employer coverage lapses, and read how the COBRA clocks run if you are weighing it seriously.
• Get your real runway number. Severance plus savings divided by reality. The calculator takes five minutes.
• Know which clocks are already running. Severance review windows, COBRA election, visa grace periods, and 401(k) rollovers all run on federal deadlines that started at termination. All five deadlines are here.