Pharma giant GSK to lay off 720 workers in Belgium
British pharmaceutical giant GSK plans to cut up to 720 mainly senior jobs from its vaccine division in Belgium and not renew 215 temporary contracts, it said Wednesday.
The global company is the biggest private employer in Belgium's French-speaking region, with 9,000 staff in three production plants and its vaccine operations centre.
"A transformation plan was therefore presented to the works council today," GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) said, in a statement.
"Several departments ... will be affected by this transformation project, including R&D, manufacturing and quality control, as well as global support functions."
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