El Segundo-based caregiving company 24 Hour Home Care is laying off more than 700 people. <\/p>\n
24 Hour Home Care hires around 30,000 caregivers in California for people with disabilities and veterans, and partners with regional facilities around the state and major Medi-Cal health plans.<\/p>\n
A Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification letter said the company is laying off 738 employees in September. <\/p>\n
The company did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n
The filing, dated Aug. 31, said the layoffs will happen on Sept. 15, sooner than the 60 days notice required by the state. <\/p>\n
The company said it will pay caregivers through Oct. 23 for hours they would have worked, and cited the unanticipated ending of a \u201cmaterial third-party service arrangement\u201d as the reason behind the cuts, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.<\/p>\n
Two other healthcare companies in the Bay Area are also issuing nearly 200 layoffs.<\/p>\n
Stanford Health Care is laying off 95 employees in Palo Alto, an Aug. 28 filing showed.<\/p>\n
Hospital network John Muir Health in Contra Costa County is cutting 78 jobs across multiple locations including Walnut Creek, Concord and Pleasanton, according to government filings from Aug. 27.<\/p>\n
These companies follow a steady stream of healthcare cuts this year after federal funding losses.<\/p>\n
In early August, Dignity Health cut 139 jobs at hospitals in Los Angeles and Bakersfield.<\/p>\n
On Aug. 19, Sharp HealthCare in San Diego announced plans to lay off 168 employees. Last September, it laid off 394 people.<\/p>\n
In March, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health ended clinical services at seven of its public health clinic sites after losing $50 million in funding.<\/p>\n
The same month, UC Irvine Health laid off 150 employees in a \u201cstrategic restructuring.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"El Segundo-based caregiving company 24 Hour Home Care is laying off more than 700 people. 24 Hour Home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[18902,45196,3426,4813,3901,4777,97,252,253,354212,6292,3897,4281,3590,5599,27830,13109,51475],"class_list":["post-836475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-aug","tag-caregiver","tag-company","tag-cut","tag-employee","tag-filing","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-hour-home-care","tag-job","tag-layoff","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-people","tag-public-health","tag-september","tag-state","tag-walnut-creek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}