WEST LAFAYETTE, IN — Inari, a seed gene-editing company with facilities in the Purdue Research Park, filed notice with the Indiana Department of Workforce Development that it will lay off 64 employees.
The Cambridge, Mass.-based company said in its Jan. 20 letter to the IDWD that it will conduct a "mass layoff" at its West Lafayette facility beginning Jan. 20. First dates of employee termination were slated to last through Feb. 6.
"Changing business needs require us to reduce our workforce at this facility and, therefore, we are providing you with this notice in accordance with requirements of the Federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN)," the company said in its notice.
The layoff of 64 employees would be permanent, the notice said, with no applicable bumping rights.
The Journal & Courier has emailed Inari asking for areas within the company the layoffs will affect but has not yet received a response.
Inari first announced it would expand to the Purdue Research Park area in 2018, citing at that time the proximity to Purdue's College of Agriculture as a major deciding factor.
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