National Laboratories

LLNL Pays $37.3M to Settle Lawsuit from Laid-Off Workers

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Alissa Tabirian
NS&D Monitor
10/2/2015
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) said this week it will pay a group of former employees $37.25 million in contract damages to settle a lawsuit in which 130 workers claimed they were unfairly laid off…

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