Nichols Cuts Hourly Employees’ Workweek
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO — Nichols Institute said Friday that a drop in the number of patients using San Diego hospitals has caused it to cut a day from the workweek of up to 170 employees at its clinical laboratory there.
Nichols put its hourly employees in San Diego on four-day, 32-hour schedules indefinitely, although it hopes to put them back on full-time status in a month or so, said Joleen Kahn, the company’s assistant treasurer.
She said the reduction affects about 5% of the company’s 3,400 employees who work in regional clinics, satellite offices and research laboratories nationwide. Nichols provides clinical testing services for hospitals and doctors, as well as related research and development.
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