A ray of economic sunshine pierced the storm clouds of job loss enveloping Hampton Roads on Thursday.
Smithfield Foods Inc. said it planned to lay off no more than 30 workers at its soon-to-close Smithfield Packing Co. South plant. That’s less than 9 percent of the number – 340 – that the company had predicted it would let go almost a year ago.
And even those 30 might get their jobs back, said Jeff Gough, Smithfield Foods’ vice president of human resources.
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