ALZA Corporation Faces Layoffs in Vacaville, California

TheReporter.com -- For the third time in 13 months, employees at Vacaville's ALZA Corp. on Tuesday faced another round of layoffs, this time the result of the firm's parent company, Johnson & Johnson, reducing its global workforce 6 to 7 percent. Plant manager Francesco Pannone was not available for comment, and Michael Bunter, director of human relations, referred all questions to a spokesman for the New Brunswick, N.J.-based health care conglomerate.