About 220 South Carolina Boeing workers will be out of work after the new year. The financially struggling aerospace company announced the layoffs, expected to begin Jan. 17. All but eight of the employees losing their jobs work in North Charleston,

Boeing said it will lay off about 220 workers at its SC factories, nearly all of them at sites that build engine components, cabin parts and the Dreamliner jet.

Boeing is expected to lay off 10% of its workforce, which amounts to nearly 17,000 employees across the company, including over 200 workers in Charleston. According to reports, The Boeing Company will permanently lay off 220 employees on January 17,

Boeing will lay off more than 2,200 workers in the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon, according to filings posted on Monday, as part of the debt-heavy U.S. planemaker's plan to cut 17,000 jobs, or 10% of its global workforce.

The company issued almost 2,200 layoff notices to employees in Washington and another 220 in South Carolina, and it builds commercial aircraft in both these states

Boeing is planning to lay off more than 2,500 workers in the US from Washington, Oregon, South Carolina and Missouri. This is part of the company's larger plan to cut 17,000 jobs or 10% of its global workforce,