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Article: More than 500 to be laid off from Livermore Lab
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- April 15, 2008
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Livermore Lab announced plans Tuesday to lay off up to 535 of its
core employees, including some scientists and engineers, starting as
early as mid-May.
This will be the first involuntary layoffs from the permanent,
career workforce in 35 years.
"Implementing an involuntary separation is not a decision I take
lightly," lab director George Miller said in a news release Tuesday.
"But our laboratory must be agile enough to respond to the
challenges facing our nation."
The move is the third time in recent months that the lab has shed
employees to make up for increased costs associated with the
changeover to a private management corporation from the University
of California in October.
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