(Newark, CA) — A Bay Area company that manufactures Covid tests is laying off more than one-thousand employees. That’s according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN letter that recently went out from Cepheid. The company produces a 15-minute Covid test kit, among other medical tests and devices. The largest job loss will be at their Newark manufacturing center, which is shutting down, leaving 6-hundred-83 people without jobs. Job cuts are also affecting their Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, and Lodi locations, with a total of 1-thousand-46 jobs cut. The WARN letter said that all impacted associates will be offered outplacement services, free of charge.
CA Company Closing Manufacturing Center
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