BJ's Restaurants closing Marin site
Hundreds of job cuts in Bay Area
Hundreds more job cuts affecting the tech, shipping and the service industry are set to batter the Bay Area economy, official state reports show.
The latest job cut announcements will eliminate well over 300 more jobs in the Bay Area, according to WARN letters sent to the state Employment Development Department, a requirement of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.
Among the announced layoffs was BJ's Restaurants, which said it would close the San Rafael location April 12. Ninety jobs are affected. The company said it is offering transfers to all employees if they wish to work at another location.
Elsewhere in the Bay Area, a handful of tech companies planned to eliminate a combined 163 jobs affecting workers in Santa Clara, Redwood City, San Francisco and Hayward.
Evernote, a software company that has developed a note-taking app, will eliminate 65 positions in Redwood City. The job cuts took place Feb. 17. Critical Ideas, which does business as Chipper Cash, will cut 49 jobs based out of the San Francisco
headquarters. The WARN letter indicated the employees work remotely in locations throughout the Bay Area and other states. The job cuts occurred Feb. 17.
Workers at both companies were given pay and benefits rather than 60 days' notice of their layoffs.
Futurewei Technologies, a unit of China-based Huawei, is cutting 43 jobs in Santa Clara. The electronics company provides communications and information technology services and is the U.S. research arm of Huawei.
The layoffs are slated to occur April 3.
Minted, an online marketplace and platform for independent artists and designers, is cutting six jobs at a Hayward manufacturing plant that will be closed down. The layoffs are due to occur April 17.
An estimated 333 jobs, including both tech and nontech industries, are being lost in the Bay Area as a result of the most recent layoff decisions, a review of the WARN letters shows.
GSC Logistics is cutting 80
jobs, with layoffs scheduled to begin as soon as April 12. The company warned that the job cuts could occur throughout 2023, depending on demand for warehouse and shipping work at the Port of Oakland. Bottlenecks at the port contributed to the company's decision to slash jobs, the WARN notice said.
The layoffs were expected to be permanent, although the company said it's possible that some affected workers could be recalled to their jobs in order of seniority.