From SFGATE: UCSF Health is slashing approximately 200 positions to mitigate “serious financial challenges,” the hospital network said in a statement to SFGATE on Wednesday. Kristen Bole, a spokesperson for UCSF, told SFGATE that employees are being notified that their last day will be 60 days from Wednesday. She said those employees won’t be expected to show up to work, but they can work on “items related to their transition.” ...
...A spokesperson for the Employment Development Department told SFGATE that it has not received any WARN filings from UCSF as of Wednesday. Such filings are generally required by the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act in the vent of mass layoffs. The staff cuts come as health care workers have been striking for more than a week outside UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland to protest UCSF’s proposal to transition the hospital’s workers to become University of California employees...
Additionally, the cuts come amid looming funding threats to the National Institutes of Health and UC System from the Trump administration...
Full story at https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/ucsf-health-layoffs-amid-financial-challenges-20394116.php.
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