Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station Plans to Eliminate 81 Civilian Jobs
As part of a nationwide downsizing, the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station will eliminate 81 civilian jobs, the Department of Navy announced Wednesday.
The Navy said it will have to eliminate 1,201 jobs nationwide by July because of declining workload.
In hopes of avoiding actual layoffs at the Seal Beach base, the Navy is offering early retirement and “separation incentives†up to $25,000, according to naval officials.
The station employs 493 civilians in full- and part-time jobs, along with 134 military personnel. The cutbacks are the third since 1992, when the station had a work force of 800.
The Seal Beach base opened in 1944 and served as a store for ammunition and repairing steel anti-submarine nets. In subsequent decades, the base was used for missile maintenance and assembly for such projects as the Apollo and Skylab space missions.
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