Kevin Harvick Inc., which announced this month that it would merge its Nationwide Series operation into Richard Childress Racing and that the majority of its Camping World Truck Series operation had been sold to Eddie Sharp Racing, notified the state of North Carolina that it planned 103 layoffs under the state’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. The move was not unexpected. Team co-owner Kevin Harvick said Sept. 9 that he was closing his team’s shop, which employed about 140 people to field two full-time Nationwide teams and three full-time truck teams. North Carolina law requires a 60-day notice to the state and employees if at least 50 employees will be laid off because of the closure or shutdown of a business unit or if a company has layoffs of at least 50 people that impact 33 percent of a workforce at a single site. KHI, which has won two truck series titles, filed its notice with the state Tuesday with the effective date of shutdown as Nov. 25.(Scene Daily)(9-29-2011)
