PLEASANTON — Gap has revealed the details of massive layoffs that are affecting the jobs of several hundred workers in the Bay Area, along with employees in the Central Valley, official state government filings show.
The retailer has decided to chop 700 Bay Area jobs, primarily in San Francisco, but also in Pleasanton, according to WARN letters on file with the state Employment Development Department.
Gap’s layoffs include 663 workers in San Francisco and another 37 in Pleasanton, the filings with the EDD show.
Along with the layoffs in the Bay Area, Gap is cutting 85 jobs in the Central Valley, consisting of 84 in the Placer County city of Rocklin and one in Fresno.
The Gap job cuts are all described as permanent, according to the WARN notices.
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