Temporary Closure To Affect 85 Jobs In Northridge

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — More than 500 workers are facing layoffs across Southern California, according to notices received by the state employment department so far this month.

In Northridge, COR Restaurant Services is temporarily closing, affecting 85 jobs as of early May, the state's WARN report said.

Electric vehicle maker Rivian Automotive is among a long list of businesses to file WARN notices in California, and disclosed plans to lay off 239 workers in Orange County by mid-April, as well as 240 people in Santa Clara County on the same timeline.

American General Life Insurance Co. will eliminate 163 people out of Woodland Hills as of May 1, while GEO Secure Services, a prison solutions company, will cut 112 workers by mid-April in Adelanto, according to the WARN report. Cerebral, an online mental health provider, is laying off 31 employees by April 30 out of Walnut.

Further north, Auris Health and Verb Surgical, both Johnson & Johnson-owned medical robotics companies, are cutting 292 and 47 positions, respectively, in late April at locations in the Bay Area, according to the report.

Other northern California layoffs include Waymo, Google’s self-driving car company, which is cutting 112 people by early May in Mountain View, and Embark Trucks, which builds software for self-driving trucks and plans to lay off 109 people out of San Francisco within a similar timeframe, the WARN report stated.

Clif Bar & Co. will terminate 34 people in Oakland, also in early May, according to the report.

Zoom, which laid off 199 workers in February out of San Jose as part of a termination of 1,300 employees, was listed on the WARN report as of early March, as was frozen food manufacturer Ajinomoto Foods North America, which eliminated 48 employees last month in Hayward.

The latest Bay Area cuts follow a barrage of layoffs across the tech sector, including 12,000 earlier this year at Google. The mass terminations began in late 2022, when Twitter and Meta each laid off thousands of workers.