A month after announcing its was shifting more than 300 jobs from Pennsylvania and New Jersey to its facilities at biotech hotbeds in the Boston and San Francisco areas, Merck and Co. Inc., has provided some specific numbers for job losses in Montgomery County.
Merck (NYSE: MRK), is cutting 148 jobs at in North Wales campus on Sumneytown Pike where it is closing a screening plant, according to the company's Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) filing with the state Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry.
The jobs cuts are effective Sept. 12, according to the filing.
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