A contractor for Amazon Logistics is laying off more than 200 workers in North Texas later this year, according to a Texas Workforce Commission report.

Accelore Group LLC reported the 214 positions will be cut in Dallas and Tarrant counties at job sites in Fort Worth and Balch Springs. The layoffs are set to take effect Nov. 1.

A spokesperson for Accelore referred KERA News to its board of directors, but said the layoffs are an "internal decision."

Amazon told Dallas Business Journal the company is connecting impacted workers, which are mostly delivery associates, with other partners at the Amazon Delivery Service Partner program currently hiring in the North Texas area.

Although the U.S. is not in a recession, several factors show a slowdown in the economy, said Cullum Clark, an e

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