TriLink Biotechnologies, LLC California Layoffs 2025: What Employees Should Know

What the filing says

These are the details as TriLink Biotechnologies, LLCreported them to the state. The EDD publishes every notice, and these figures come from the state's report as retrieved on Aug 13, 2026.

How much notice the law requires

California's WARN Act requires 60 days of advance written notice before a covered mass layoff, and its only statutory exception is a physical calamity or an act of war — far narrower than federal law's three. Who is covered and how the thresholds are counted is in our California WARN Act guide.

TriLink Biotechnologies severance: what to check before you sign

A severance offer is not the notice pay the WARN Act describes. Severance you were already promised — in a contract, a handbook, or a union agreement — cannot be used to satisfy that obligation, though Labor Code section 1402 does let an employer reduce a back-pay award by voluntary payments it was never required to make. A release may also give up more than you expect. Justin reviews severance agreements before workers sign. What to check before you decide is in our full guide to the California WARN Act.

Two things worth doing this week either way. File for unemployment now — WARN money does not reduce it, and the filings here run through Oct 6, 2025, so you do not have to wait for your last day. And keep every document, including the notice itself and anything showing when it arrived.

Questions people are asking

Where a layoff can raise a legal question

A layoff is lawful on its own, and nothing below is a statement about TriLink Biotechnologies. These are the places California law can still come into play, depending on the facts of your own situation.

• The severance you were asked to signA release can give up claims you did not know you had, and the terms are sometimes negotiable.
• How you were selectedA reduction in force still cannot be used to cut someone for a protected reason such as age, disability, pregnancy, or a complaint they made.
• Your final paycheckCalifornia sets when final wages are due at termination, and unpaid time or accrued vacation can carry penalties on top of the wages.
• The length of the notice periodWhere a notice period turns out to fall short of what the law required, the question usually belongs to everyone in the same position rather than to one person.

General information about California law, not legal advice, and reading it does not create an attorney-client relationship.

What has been reported

Press coverage of this layoff, summarized and attributed. This is reporting rather than the filing itself, and we did not independently verify it.

Fierce Pharma reported that TriLink BioTechnologies' 90 San Diego job cuts break down as 69 employees at its corporate headquarters, five at its analytical sciences center, and 16 across two neighboring manufacturing sites — one housing nucleic acid production and the other mRNA manufacturing — with the cuts slated to take effect by October 6.

The layoffs are part of a broader "corporate realignment plan" at parent company Maravai LifeSciences, which Fierce Pharma reported is targeting $50 million in annual savings and a workforce reduction of about 25% after second-quarter revenues declined to $47.4 million with a $69.8 million net loss.

Fierce Pharma tied the pullback to a more than 43% quarterly drop in Maravai's nucleic acid production revenues, attributed to a lack of high-volume orders for CleanCap, TriLink's mRNA manufacturing component, and noted the federal government had recently begun winding down BARDA's mRNA vaccine development investments.

Sources: Fierce Pharma (opens in a new tab)

What the numbers show

• The 90 affected positions are in San Diego.
• They cover 4 separate addresses rather than a single site, so co-workers at different locations may have received different dates.
• The shortest gap between notice and last day here is 59 days, close to the statewide median of 61 days across every notice on file.
• By headcount it sits in the top 45% of the 599 employer layoffs tracked here.
• The 90 workers leaving TriLink Biotechnologies, LLC re-enter a job market where San Diego County unemployment stood at 4.4% in June 2026, below the 5.2% statewide rate (Bureau of Labor Statistics, not seasonally adjusted).
• All 4 notices are dated within a single month, August 2025, which reads as one event reported site by site rather than a rolling reduction.

These are counts and comparisons drawn from the published filings, not findings about TriLink Biotechnologies.

Free job-search help near San Diego

America's Job Center of California is the state's no-cost network for laid-off workers: help filing and keeping unemployment benefits, federally funded retraining, and résumé and interview coaching. Your WARN notice may name one; these are the closest to the sites in these filings.

• East County Career Center (opens in a new tab)

  151 Van Houten Ave, El Cajon, CA 92020 · 619-319-9675

  Affiliate center (partial services) · about 14.3 miles from the San Diego site

• Metro Career Center (opens in a new tab)

  4389 Imperial Avenue, San Diego, CA 92113 · 619-319-9675

  Affiliate center (partial services) · about 14.8 miles from the San Diego site

Locations and hours change — confirm before visiting, or find another center with the EDD's center locator (opens in a new tab). Directory: U.S. Department of Labor, Jul 31, 2026; distances are straight-line from the address in the filing.

Other layoffs filed in San Diego County around the same time

67 employers have WARN notices on file in San Diego County, covering 6,193 workers. These filed within about a quarter of this one.

• Amazon6,975 workers
• Republic National Distributing Company1,756 workers
• Blue Shield of California433 workers
• Hilton San Diego Bayfront394 workers
• Sharp HealthCare394 workers
• Kaiser Foundation Hospitals345 workers

Listed because they appear in the same county in the same public data. No connection between these employers is implied.

California wage claims filed against TriLink Biotechnologies

California employers face claims under the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA), which lets an employee sue for civil penalties over Labor Code violations on behalf of the state. The state publishes every filing. One PAGA case naming this employer is on that record, including the settlements below.

These are outcomes in other people’s cases, obtained by other lawyers, taken from the state’s public filing record. They are not results of this firm, and past results do not guarantee a similar outcome. What any individual recovers depends on their own hours, pay records, and dates.

• Proposed settlement · 2023

  $400,000

  Non-exempt hourly employees in California alleged they were not paid minimum wage or overtime, were denied meal and rest breaks, and did not receive accurate wage statements or required reimbursements. The employer denies any wrongdoing. The parties agreed to settle for $400,000 to avoid further litigation. The settlement releases both class and PAGA claims.

  Covered All current and former non-exempt, hourly paid employees of Defendant who worked in California at any time from May 23, 2018, through the date Preliminary Approval of the Class Settlement is granted, or a sooner date per the procedure set forth in Paragraph 71 below, at Defendant's option. The settlement resolved class claims as well as PAGA penalties.

  Attorneys' fees

  $133,320

  To the state (LWDA)

  $30,000

  Superior Court of the State of California, for the County of San Diego · 37-2022-00019578-CU-OE-CTL · TriLink Biotechnologies denied liability; a settlement is not an admission.

A PAGA case is not a class action, and there is nothing to opt out of. A PAGA settlement resolves civil penalties owed to the state — most of which the state keeps — and it does not necessarily resolve your own unpaid wages, missed break premiums, or final-paycheck penalties. If you worked here and were not paid correctly, that is a separate question worth asking about. How California wage claims work.