Olymel is cutting 100 jobs at its pork-processing plant at Red Deer, Alta.
The company has been struggling with huge losses for a couple of years and has closed a number of plants in Quebec and cut down hog production and purchasing there.
Plant managers at Red Deer said early this month that the plant was 200 people over-staffed.
It has offered early retirement to employees with a decade of service who are more than 60 years old and has issued layoff notices to 50.
Last spring, Olymel shut down six sow units and eliminated 80 jobs to reduce regional production to 40,000 sows from 57,000, the company said at the time.
That move by in late May followed layoffs of 994 employees the previous month and that came after it closed a large facility af Vallée-Jonction in the Beauce region of Quebec.
