June 13 is the last day the Fort Oglethorpe Career Center and five similar offices across the state will serve the unemployed.
Closing offices in Blairsville, Camilla, Elberton, Kings Bay, Monroe and Northwest Georgia (Fort Oglethorpe) is seen as a way to cut costs, according to Georgia Department of Labor spokesman Tom Krause.
Officials said none of the 15 who staff the local office will lose their jobs. Ten will transfer to the career center in Dalton and five will move to the LaFayette career center.
But closing the office on Battlefield Parkway means anyone needing to use career center computers to search for work and file claims or meet face-to-face with the staff now face an additional hardship to being unemployed.
“We see people from all over,” said Chris Upchurch, the Fort Oglethorpe center’s manager. “Our location draws a lot of out-of-state residents who worked in Georgia and we have been sending someone to Dade County every other week to establish a presence there.”