J&J plans to cut 64 jobs at New York plant in new year

More than 60 jobs are on the chop­ping block at John­son & John­son’s New York City De­sign Cen­ter, ac­cord­ing to a state fil­ing.

The com­pa­ny re­port­ed a “plant lay­off” to the state’s WARN sys­tem last week, not­ing that 64 em­ploy­ees will be laid off from Jan. 13 to Jan. 26, 2023. J&J list­ed the rea­son be­hind the cuts as “eco­nom­ic,” not­ing that the staffers are not part of a union.

“As the world’s largest most di­ver­si­fied health­care prod­uct com­pa­ny, we are con­stant­ly as­sess­ing ways to be more in­no­v­a­tive and com­pet­i­tive,” a J&J spokesper­son told End­points News via email. The com­pa­ny de­clined to com­ment on which de­part­ments will be af­fect­ed.

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