Northern California will be heavily impacted
Intel has joined the growing list of American employers reducing headcount ahead of an anticipated recession.
The Silicon Valley giant plans to cut hundreds of jobs throughout Northern California, including in Santa Clara (where its headquartered) and Folsom, according to WARN notices filed with California’s Employment Development Department. The company said it will eliminate 90 jobs in Santa Clara and 111 positions in Folsom over a 14-day period starting on Jan. 31, 2023, according to the WARN notice reported by the Bay Area News Group.
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act has been in the news lately after former Twitter employees sued the social media giant for allegedly not complying. The WARN Act is a federal law requiring a 60-day notice for mass layoffs at businesses with 100 or more employees unless they are caused by natural disasters or “business circumstances that were not reasonably foreseeable.” Under the law, the term “mass layoff” can be defined by loss of employment for at least 33% of the workforce. Twitter has laid off more than half of its workforce since Elon Musk’s takeover.
Musk, also the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, is no stranger to the WARN Act. In June, two former Tesla employees sued the company for abruptly laying off more than 500 workers at a Nevada factory as part of a national workforce reduction. In September, a federal magistrate judge ruled Tesla must notify factory workers...
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