Ther­mo Fish­er shrinks head­count in San Diego area, ax­ing over 200 po­si­tions

Ther­mo Fish­er Sci­en­tif­ic has laid off 230 work­ers at three of its lo­ca­tions in San Diego.

Ac­cord­ing to a Cal­i­for­nia WARN no­tice, 183 Ther­mo Fish­er em­ploy­ees were let go from a fa­cil­i­ty in San Diego, specif­i­cal­ly at 6190 Cor­ner­stone Court. Two oth­er lo­ca­tions had small­er sack­ings of 32 and 15 em­ploy­ees. A re­port from the San Diego Union-Tri­bune stat­ed that the bulk of po­si­tions be­ing axed at the Cor­ner­stone site are in man­u­fac­tur­ing, with en­gi­neers and sci­en­tists al­so be­ing hand­ed lay­offs.

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