Seventy-three PNC Bank employees in downtown State College will be laid off this summer, the Pittsburgh-based bank confirmed Friday.
PNC spokesman Fred Solomon said the affected workers — 34 full-time and 39 part-time employees — were notified this week. They work in the retail-banking call center at 122 E. College Ave. and will be let go between July 23 and August 6, according to the bank. The call center will be closed.
Solomon said the layoffs do ‘not indicate any issues with the service that the employees there were providing.’ He said PNC has been consolidating operations since it acquired National City bank in December 2008.
National City ‘had its own call centers and other operations,’ Solomon said. He said calls that have been routed to State College will be directed to a call center in Pittsburgh after the layoffs are complete.
The bank is working to ‘redeploy eligible employees’ from State College to other PNC locations, Solomon said, though he did not disclose how many employees may go elsewhere in the company.
He said some other employees may receive severance compensation.
‘PNC retains its commitment to State College and Centre County,’ Solomon said. He said the bank plans no changes to its four branches in the area.
The positions being eliminated at the College Avenue call center are all dubbed consultant jobs, according to a notification letter that the bank sent to borough Mayor Elizabeth Goreham. The affected employees are not represented by a union, the letter says.
Last month, Bank of America said that it will cut 165 jobs in Ferguson Township and close its call center there, the Centre Daily Times reported.
