Nearly 500 Walmart Employees To Be Laid Off Or Relocated From Hoboken

HOBOKEN, NJ — Walmart will lay off as many as 481 employees in their corporate offices in Hoboken later this year, according to a notice filed with the New Jersey Department of Labor this month.

A company spokesperson said some of the employees may choose to relocate instead, and have "several weeks" to decide.

A WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) notice, intended to give notice of layoffs at large companies, says that the employees will be let go by June 13 of this year.

Walmart owns the corporate headquarters of the former Jet.com at 221 River St., on Hoboken's south waterfront. There are no Walmart stores in Hoboken.

Last week, the major retailer announced that it was eliminating hundreds of jobs and moving workers from North Carolina and New Jersey to main offices in both Arkansas and San Francisco, according to reports.

A Walmart spokesperson told Patch, "These numbers are predominately associates who work in the Hoboken office and a small number are associates who work remotely and are tied to the Hoboken office. We don’t have specific numbers to share at this time - associates offered relocation still have several weeks to make a decision."

In New Jersey, the federal WARN Act applies to companies who intend to lay off more than 50 employees in a 30-day period.