Kaiser Announces Elimination Of Dozens Of Positions

PLEASANTON, CA — Kaiser is cutting numerous jobs from the East Bay and Southern California, the East Bay Times reported today.

According to that article, which attributes the information to official filings with state labor officials, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals disclosed plans to trim more than four dozen California jobs, most of them in the Bay Area.

The announcement comes just days after more than 75,000 unionized employees of Kaiser walked off the job, marking the largest health care worker strike in US history.

More than half of the 49 jobs being cut include 28 from the Bay Area with 21 of those being cut in Pleasanton, the East Bay Times reported. Another seven jobs would be cut in downtown Oakland, which is home to Kaiser’s headquarters.

Kaiser said the employees affected are not members of any union and that layoffs were scheduled to be effective by on or around Nov. 10.

“Kaiser Foundation Hospitals intends to permanently lay off certain employees at various California locations,” Christine Neubauer, a Kaiser human resources director, wrote in the WARN letter to the EDD. “No employer locations are closing.”

Read more on the East Bay Times.