UnitedHealth Group and Optum violated state and federal employee notification laws during mass layoffs that occurred earlier this year, two former employees allege in a lawsuit filed Oct. 30 in a California federal court.
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UnitedHealthcare's employee count ranges from 32,000 in Texas to under 100 in Alaska, according to the company's website.
CVS Health is planning to lay off an additional 70 employees at Aetna, in addition to a previously announced round of layoffs.
Former employees with the Cigna Group and its subsidiaries have taken to social media in October regarding layoffs they say are occurring across the company.
Former employees with Elevance Health, previously known as Anthem, and its subsidiaries have taken to social media regarding an unknown number of job cuts they say are occurring across the company. Elevance confirmed "recent changes" with Becker's.
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CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield cut 140,000 square feet of office space in Washington, D.C., Bisnow reported Sept. 27.
Centene is laying off about 2,000 employees starting Oct. 2, or about 3 percent of its workforce, as the company faces financial difficulties over Medicaid redeterminations and Medicare Advantage star ratings, the St. Louis Business Journal reported Sept. 26.
More than 1,000 Blue Shield of California employees will work at the company's new office space in Long Beach..
Over 1,000 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan employees are striking, after United Auto Workers and the company failed to reach a new contract agreement.
Fortune has named Elevance Health the best large employer to work for in U.S. healthcare, according to its list of 40 top workplaces published in September.