Hundreds of tech, biotech, oil, school workers lose Bay Area jobs

Several hundred job cuts menace the wobbly Bay Area financial system in fresh waves of layoffs for workers in the tech biotech potential and school sectors according to official state filings Related Articles San Jose State University beats Stanford Cal in computer coding Fix California It s cheap housing good job opportunities State tax credits fuel creation of hundreds of new East Bay jobs in cutting-edge fusion power Credit union eyes HQ and branch campus with San Jose property purchase Silicon Valley s gene-editor Synthego files for bankruptcy with plans to sell itself to lenders Microsoft Chevron x Genomics andMe NetApp NGM Biopharmaceuticals Pliant Therapeutics and Downtown College Prep are among the employers that have decided to slash jobs in the Bay Area in recent days a post by the state Employment Advancement Department shows All communicated the eight employers have notified the state labor agency about their decision to slash jobs in the Bay Area according to information the state EDD has posted on its site The layoff disclosures arrive on the heels of big job losses for the Bay Area over the early months of the state EDD has released Here are particular details about the up-to-date job cuts to jolt workers in the Bay Area Microsoft job cuts in Mountain View and Santa Clara The tech titan s local downsizing is slated to occur July Downtown College Prep layoffs in San Jose The charter school will reduce staffing on June as part of a decision to close all three of its schools due to declining enrollment x Genomics job cuts in Pleasanton The biotech company plans to complete the staffing reductions by July Chevron staffing reductions in Richmond The vigor giant has scheduled the downsizing for July andMe job cuts in San Francisco The biotech company plans to chop workers on June as part of a permanent closure of that site Pliant Therapeutics layoffs in South San Francisco The life sciences firm completed the staff reductions on May NGM Biopharmaceuticals staff reductions in South San Francisco The biotech firm plans to eliminate the jobs on June NetApp job cuts in San Jose The tech company plans to reduce staffing levels on June The job cuts were all described as permanent according to the WARN notices