Deere lays off 225 employees in Illinois plant, Quad-City Times reports

John Deere Harvester Works told 225 production employees on Wednesday they would be placed on indefinite layoff effective October 16, reported Gretchen Teske in the Quad-City Times. “Although John Deere has hired hundreds of employees in the Quad Cities in recent years, the company has consistently stated that each Deere factory balances the size of its production workforce with the needs of the individual factory to optimize the workforce at each facility,” the repor quoted to a news release from Deere as having stated.