Solutia Inc.

Solutia Inc. recently laid off 128 workers at its Decatur plant. The company is classifying 38 of the layoffs, including 18 Solutia employees and 20 contract employees, as permanent. The company said the job loss for the other 90 workers, including 48 Solutia employees and 42 contract employees, is temporary. The Plant Manager said the company expects to call back the temporarily laid-off workers in about six weeks. Before the layoff, the plant had 235 employees and 128 contract workers. Six of the permanent layoffs involve salaried employees, he said. Eleven of the temporary layoffs are salaried.