Biotech company lays off over a hundred Bay Area workers
SFGate - 2024-05-16T23:24:11.000Z

BioMarin Pharmaceutical, a San Rafael-based biotech company specializing in drugs for genetic disorders, is laying off swaths of its Bay Area staff. The company is letting go of 170 total employees, according to a Tuesday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Per a WARN notice filed in California, at least 117 of those people work in the Bay Area. The California notice, required by the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act because of the size of the layoff, listed 42...

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