The Winston-Salem Journal reports:

Dell Inc. said today that it has conducted its first job cut of full-time employees at its Forsyth County computer-assembly plant.

But the company declined to say how many jobs had been eliminated and what shifts had been affected.

David Frink, a company spokesman, said that affected employees were notified of the job cuts this morning. They will receive a severance package, outplacement services and career counseling.

Frink said that the job cut did not trigger the requirement of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, or WARN, which requires companies to give employees 60 days’ notice when planning large-scale layoffs.

The decision was not unexpected, given that Dell has reduced production at its plant in Nashville in recent months and closed a plant in Limerick, Ireland, to a new, lower-production cost plant in Lodz, Poland.

Dell had about 1,150 employees at its local $115 million plant, where it assembles desktop computers for business and individual customers.

The state of North Carolina forked over $242 million in economic incentives to lure the plant, while the City of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County pitched in an addition $37 million.