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LabCorp to lay off 169 former Genzyme workers
bostonherald.com ^ | 04/21/2011 | Herald Staff

Posted on 04/21/2011 8:38:59 PM PDT by massmike

Laboratory Corp. of America reportedly plans to lay off 169 Westboro workers at a Genzyme unit it bought last December, transferring the work to North Carolina.

Genzyme Genetics, which LabCorp bought from Genzyme last December for $925 million, plans to cut 146 jobs on its reimbursement team and 23 on its information technology team between now and next February, according to a company memo obtained by The Worcester Business Journal.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: joblosses

1 posted on 04/21/2011 8:39:01 PM PDT by massmike
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2 posted on 04/21/2011 8:46:09 PM PDT by massmike (DADT repeal: the Boy Scouts now have tougher membership requirements than the Army!)
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I wonder how much money Labcorp makes by charging prospective employers a few hundred bucks to dip a $5.00 test strip in a cup of urine.


3 posted on 04/21/2011 8:59:50 PM PDT by Minn
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The NLRB should stop this blatant form of discrimination against a rat state. I have much sympathy for the freepers caught in this rat state. The NLRB can surely stop Labcorp from this blatantly discriminatory act.


4 posted on 04/21/2011 9:03:28 PM PDT by businessprofessor
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Par for the course.

Remember the slate of layoffs that were announced the day after the election?


5 posted on 04/21/2011 9:03:46 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Some men DO just want to watch the world burn.)
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Together We CAN’T!


6 posted on 04/21/2011 9:16:51 PM PDT by massmike (DADT repeal: the Boy Scouts now have tougher membership requirements than the Army!)
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Or “Together We Can...really bring the whole bleeping thing down!”


7 posted on 04/21/2011 9:20:32 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Some men DO just want to watch the world burn.)
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