A New Wave of Massive Layoffs Now Strikes California

December 22, 2023

A new wave of massive layoffs now strikes California as more businesses file WARN notices advising of upcoming job cuts.

It’s important to note that under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, an employer with more than 100 full-time workers must provide a 60-day notice before laying off 50 or more people at a single site.

Between December 7 and 21st, the following twenty-eight businesses officially filed notices with the California Employment Development Department advising of job cuts.

Charles Schwab. 155 jobs cut in San Francisco
Pac-12 Enterprises. 141 jobs cut in San Ramon
St James Infirmary. 71 jobs cut in San Francisco
Analog Devices, Inc. 11 jobs cut in San Jose
Kaiser Foundation Hospitals. 153 jobs cut across California
Intel Corporation. 235 jobs cut in Folsom
Oracle America at Adventist Health. 65 jobs cut in Roseville
Rico Corp. dba D’ Addario Woodwinds. 26 jobs cut in Sun Valley
Global Expedited Transportation. 51 jobs cut in Rancho Cucamonga
Acutus Medical. 147 jobs cut in Carlsbad
Splunk Inc. 176 jobs cut in San Francisco
Accenture. 87 jobs cut in San Jose
The Apothecarium. 7 jobs cut in Capitola
Atara Biotherapeutics. 73 jobs cut in Thousand Oaks
Hyperloop One. 14 jobs cut in Los Angeles
TVT Trucking. 142 jobs cut in Gilroy
Marvell Semiconductor. 65 jobs cut in Santa Clara
Distribution Alternatives. 23 jobs cut in Rialto
AHMC San Gabriel Valley Medical Center. 29 jobs cut in San Gabriel
TriLink Biotechnologies. 85 jobs cut in San Diego
Virgin Galactic. 78 jobs cut in Mojave
Intel Corporation. 76 jobs cut in Santa Clara
Agilent Technologies. 36 jobs cut in Santa Clara
Owens-Brockway Glass Container. 130 jobs cut in Tracy
Talis Biomedical Corporation. 103 jobs cut in Redwood City
Fish Market Restaurants. Four jobs cut in San Diego
Knox Attorney Service. 85 jobs cut in San Jose

So far, California remains the #1 state with the most layoffs in the country.

The state has had approximately 75,954 layoffs this year across 1,298 businesses according to the latest WARN data.

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When things could not get worse, this bankrupt retailer now gets into unexpected trouble after failing to protect its customers.

Rite Aid was going high tech with its loss prevention by using artificial intelligence-based facial recognition surveillance systems from 2012 to 2020, in order to identify customers who may have been engaged in shoplifting or other problematic behavior in its stores, according to a complaint filed in federal court by the Federal Trade Commission.

The complaint, however, charged that Rite Aid “failed to take reasonable measures to prevent harm to consumers, who, as a result, were erroneously accused by employees of wrongdoing because facial recognition technology falsely flagged the consumers as matching someone who had previously been identified as a shoplifter or other troublemaker.”

Now the FTC is seeking to ban Rite Aid from using AI technology.

The FTC on Dec. 19 filed for a stipulated order and permanent injunction in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania banning Rite Aid from using facial recognition technology for surveillance purposes for five years to settle FTC charges that the retailer failed to implement reasonable procedures and prevent harm to consumers in its use of facial recognition technology in hundreds of stores.

The proposed order will require Rite Aid to implement comprehensive safeguards to prevent harm to consumers when deploying automated systems that use biometric information to track them or flag them as security risks.

Rite Aid will also be required to discontinue using any such technology if it cannot control potential risks to consumers.

The drugstore chain will be required to implement a robust information security program, which must be overseen by the company’s top executives, to settle charges it violated a 2010 Commission data security order by failing to adequately oversee its service providers, .

Rite Aid’s procedures subjected consumers to embarrassment, harassment, and other harm, according to the complaint.

The company did not inform consumers it was using the technology in its stores, and it discouraged employees from revealing such information, according to the complaint.

This is a developing story.

Also Read: A US Company Now Declares An Unexpected Bankruptcy

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