Novartis to cut 103 clinical workers in New Jersey

No­var­tis is ax­ing 103 em­ploy­ees in New Jer­sey across clin­i­cal op­er­a­tions, call­ing the cuts part of an “or­ga­ni­za­tion­al evo­lu­tion.”

The lay­offs will af­fect em­ploy­ees in East Hanover, where the drug­mak­er’s US head­quar­ters are lo­cat­ed, ac­cord­ing to a WARN no­tice sub­mit­ted to the state ear­li­er this month — and will go in­to ef­fect Nov. 24.

Plans for some sub­stan­tial changes at No­var­tis were re­vealed more than a year ago, fo­cus­ing on a re­or­ga­ni­za­tion of the drug­mak­er that cur­rent­ly em­ploys more than 100,000 peo­ple. No­var­tis re­vealed last year it would cut rough­ly 8,000 jobs as part of the com­pa­ny over­haul, which al­so in­clud­ed around 1,400 at the com­pa­ny’s glob­al head­quar­ters in Switzer­land.

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