SIXTEEN contractors working at Boag's Brewery have been told they will no longer be required at the Launceston site, effective immediately.
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The losses are in addition to the 39 job losses announced by parent company Lion on Monday.
A Lion spokeswoman said the contractors would be paid for their rostered shifts for two weeks beginning February 8, but had been told they were no longer needed.
One contractor, who asked to remain anonymous, said there had been no warning that job losses were imminent.
"I can tell you that, no, I wasn't given any warning. And the 14 other casuals that lost their positions weren't given any warning either," he said.
"We were rostered to work this week and have since been told that we're no longer required, ever."
The man had been employed at the company as a contractor through a labour hire company for three years, and worked anywhere between 16 and 40 hours a week.
A spokeswoman for United Voice said it was her understanding that 26 of the redundancies announced on Monday would be forced, with the remaining 13 positions subject to voluntary redundancy applications.
Applications for those redundancies will close on February 19.
Launceston Chamber of Commerce executive officer Maree Tetlow said the losses were disappointing, but she hoped some of the employees could be redeployed by Lion.
"We don't want to see the loss of more technical and senior roles within our community, because that really does impact on what we can offer people, the types of roles and diversity of jobs that we have in the region," Ms Tetlow said.
"With these losses I would suggest we need to have a greater focus on our manufacturing sector in particular - because this is where we are losing those roles and senior technical jobs - to see how else we can see some improvements and expansion of those businesses that are doing well and are looking for that skill base."
Lion expects to complete the redundancy process at Boag's by the end of September.
About 100 technical roles were cut from Youngtown's Bradken steel factory in December, to be relocated to Queensland.