PFIZER PLANT PLANS RESTRUCTURING, LAYOFF OF 300

A restructuring of the Pfizer plant operations in Lincoln will result in the loss of 300 jobs, the pharmaceutical maker announced Thursday. The Lincoln plant, which employs about 800, will focus on the production of animal health vaccines and will be transferring its pharmaceutical production and packaging operations to other plants over the next few years, Pfizer said in a release. Nearly half of the job losses will happen in the next four months, said Rick Saffee, director of Lincoln's operations at Pfizer.

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