Collins Aerospace will lay off 68 workers in Cedar Rapids

Collins Aerospace, which employs about 9,000 people in Iowa, will lay off 68 employees in Cedar Rapids.

According to a Workforce Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act notice, the layoffs will occur Oct. 13.

The North Carolina-based company employs about 80,000 people worldwide, with 9,000 of them in Iowa.

A company spokesperson confirmed last month that Collins was planning layoffs across the company — not in one specific division or location — totaling less than 1 percent of its total workforce. One percent of its 7,000 employees in Cedar Rapids would be 70 people.

“Collins Aerospace is implementing actions to align its cost structure with the ongoing aerospace recovery,” Erin Callender, director of global media relations for Collins, said last month.

Callender confirmed Thursday that the layoffs in Cedar Rapids are part of that realignment.