A Colac timber company in south-west Victoria has laid off seven employees and is restructuring shifts.
AKD Softwoods employs about 200 people at its mills and headquarters in Colac. Last week, several full-time casual staff were told they were no longer needed.
Travis Lawson from the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union says the union has been told permanent jobs are safe for now, but he says employees are worried about changes to shifts and a major cutback in overtime hours.
"There's people in the financial position, they do heavily rely on that overtime and that's not there at the moment, so there's some pretty sort of worried people about the place at the moment," he said.
The company says the job cuts were a business decision, unrelated to the economic downturn, and it has no plans for further job cuts.
