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"Waterbury Hospital has notified the state that some of its food service workers could face layoffs, depending on how contract talks go with the company that handles the work. The hospital's contract with Sodexo expires June 21, said Matt Burgard, a hospital spokesman. Because the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification requires employers of 100 or more full-time workers to give 60-days advance notice of possible facilities closings or mass layoffs, Waterbury Hospital was required to notify of the state Department of Labor, Burgard said. The WARN notice said there is the potential for as many as 173 food service workers being laid off. When Sodexo took over the food service operations at the hospital in 2011, 63 food service workers at the hospital had to reapply for their jobs. At one point, the hospital handled its own food service needs, but Burgard said there are no plans to return to that arrangement. \"We'll either sign a new contract with Sodexo or another provider,\" he said. Deborah Chernoff, a spokeswoman for the Service Employees International Union, District 1199, said the union's contract has a successorship provision that would require whoever takes over the food service operations to comply with the terms of the contract, which runs through February 2015. The union represents the food service workers. \"We're not expecting any layoffs, but the contract does provide for provisions for them if they have to substantially change the way they operate the food service operations there,\" she said. Call Luther Turmelle at 203-789-5706."
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