Pfizer will lay off between 60 and 70 workers in Quebec by the end of next month to realign “company-wide costs in order to operate more efficiently,” it has learned. The newspaper.
“It is not easy to see our colleagues leave and we do not take these decisions lightly,” he conceded to Newspaper Christina Antoniou, spokesperson for Pfizer Canada in a statement sent by email.
How many employees will there be left in Quebec? In what places? Pfizer declined to provide those details Monday.
“Changes will be implemented gradually and will vary from one sector to another,” it was stated laconically.
“Our primary goal is to minimize the impact on colleagues and to utilize vacant positions or transfer talent to other opportunities within the company whenever possible,” explained Christina Antoniou.
At the same time, she stressed that workers who leave the ship “will benefit from significant support”.
Pfizer is worth $225 billion on the stock market. Its medications and vaccines are among the most prescribed in the world.
More than 46,000 jobs
According to Montréal International (MI), there are more than 46,000 jobs in life sciences and health technologies in our private companies. More than 80% of the Quebec ecosystem is located in the greater Montreal region.
Moderna, Sandoz, Baxter, GSK, Philips, Novartis, Dynacare have a footprint here, mentions the organization responsible for attracting capital to us.
Still according to MI, mRNA, AI applied to diagnosis and health, precision medicine, cell and gene therapies and the development of biological products, including vaccines are considered to be niche areas of the future.
-With the collaboration of Philippe Langlois