A local drugmaker plans to lay off dozens of employees at a factory in Westbury.

P & L Development will terminate about 60 employees next month at the 200 Hicks St. facility, said Charles Cain, the company's general counsel and chief administrative officer.

The job cuts were supposed to be larger — 94 employees, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN, filed by P & L with the state Department of Labor last month. But Cain said this week that positions had been found for about 34 employees who had been expecting to receive pink slips.

Newsday couldn't independently verify the lower number of job cuts. They represent 15% of the building's total workforce of 395 people, based on the WARN. The building also serves as the headquarters for the privately held comp

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