#warn

Around 4k employees have to go, the last day is October 12.

Barrette Outdoor Living Inc. laid off 63 workers at its Salisbury manufacturing site. The company cited revenue decline and economic downturn as reasons for the job cuts. Employees and the state received no prior notice of the layoffs. A WARN report was filed on July 1, effective immediately. Barrette Outdoor Living was acquired by Oldcastle APG in 2021.

Salisbury, North Carolina

https://amp.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/article316361814.html

Adventist Health Systems West announced upcoming layoffs. A Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) was issued. The company is eliminating 115 roles across its western division. This change results from a new centralized organizational structure. Over 80 affected employees have accepted new positions.

https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/health-and-medicine/article316365261.html

CDW let go of roughly 750 employees, with zero prior notice. I know that many are not getting 60 days of pay.

Is this a violation of the WARN Act? Or is there some loophole related to remote work and multiple offices that CDW is able to use as a defense?

I don’t think their plan backfired at all. I think it is going exactly the way they intended for it to go. Without having to issue a single WARN notice and look “bad” to investors, they manipulated a huge chunk of their workforce to “quit” their jobs and they now have the power to say who goes and when you go. Money is power and this challenging economy was perfect timing for them to exercise control.

Phoenix-based Central Admixture Pharmacy Services announced 116 layoffs. The pharmaceutical company filed a WARN notice on June 25. CAPS is the nation's largest network of outsourcing admixture pharmacies. These layoffs contribute to a weakening Arizona job market. The state's unemployment rate rose to 4.8% in May.

Phoenix, AZ

https://patch.com/arizona/phoenix/layoffs-slashing-more-100-jobs-phoenix-pharmacy-company

Many U.S. businesses anticipate job reductions in July. WARN filings indicate a more careful hiring trend. Technology, cloud services, and manufacturing firms are most affected. Companies cite automation, artificial intelligence, and efficiency as driving factors. The overall job market appears stable, yet growth is becoming uneven.

https://www.newsweek.com/list-of-companies-laying-off-employees-in-july-12128209

Shelby County experienced increased job losses in 2026. Over 1,400 jobs were affected by WARN notices by June 30. This total already surpasses the entire previous year's job reductions. Several companies contributed to these workforce reductions. Nike, GXO, IKEA, PMC Biogenix, CACI, WK Kellogg Co., and JBS USA were among them.

https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/money/business/development/2026/07/01/shelby-co-memphis-lost-1400-corporate-jobs-as-of-june-outpacing-2025-based-on-warn-notices/90745391007/

West Suburban Medical Center issued permanent layoff notices. Approximately 500 furloughed employees are affected. The layoffs are expected to begin on August 31. This action was required under the Illinois WARN Act. The hospital's future remains uncertain amid ongoing legal disputes.

Oak Park, Illinois

https://abc7chicago.com/post/west-suburban-hospital-oak-park-illinois-sends-permanent-layoff-notices-500-furloughed-employees/19425354/

Just read that 76 people are being laid off from the Roseland. Time to buckle up!

Ideal US Talent Worker OpCo LLC announced layoffs affecting 9,891 remote gig workers. The job cuts affect staff in multiple U.S. states. The temporary staffing firm, based in Minnesota, is restructuring its worker operations. The company is moving its client agreements to another entity. Affected employees are encouraged to apply for positions with this new entity.

https://pbn.com/warn-notice-minnesota-staffing-firm-laying-off-2-r-i-employees/?amp=1

Yellow Corp. suffered a major loss in its bankruptcy proceedings. The U.S. Supreme Court preserved a finding. This finding requires the company to pay billions in retirement payments. The defunct trucking company also dodged WARN Act liability. This liability was related to its 2023 layoffs.

Cisco Systems will lay off 471 employees across its Bay Area offices. These job cuts affect locations in San Jose, Milpitas, and San Francisco. The layoffs are scheduled to become effective on July 13. New Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) filings submitted to California revealed these reductions. Cisco has not publicly stated the specific reasons for these workforce changes.

San Jose, California

https://me.peoplemattersglobal.com/news/strategic-hr/cisco-to-lay-off-471-employees-across-bay-area-offices-effective-july-13-50532

A number of job cuts in the Bay Area were made public on Thursday in new WARN filings with the state. Among them were layoffs for Cisco Systems Inc. The San Jose-based tech giant plans to cut 236 workers at 170 West Tasman Dr. in San Jose, 154 at 560 McCarthy Blvd. in Milpitas and another 81 at 500 Terry A. Francois Blvd. in San Francisco. The 471 layoffs are effective July 13.

Sounds like this offer is going to very disappointing in its size and numbers offered.That coupled with fact if it’s offered too late the rate is only going to get worse affecting the size of the lump later in year.Im so confused on what is taking so long for an Eisp offer for union associates.I know they have a bunch of warn notices for management layoffs maybe they are waiting till after that no clue why.I was just hoping for something really Big and enhanced

https://www.nj.gov/labor/assets/PDFs/WARN/2026_WARN_Notice_Archive.pdf

Looks like 8/7 and 9/18 are the layoffs

Good luck!!

Hundreds of people axed in Kalamazoo, no WARN filing. Leadership has tanked the stock price and its in the toilet. A complete and utter disaster! CEO and CFO lied about Librela numbers and are being sued. Stay away from this company, more layoffs happening in Jun/July 2026.

WARN was submitted on June 19, and it lists August 21 as the date layoffs will take effect. Not really surprising, as Walmart has been ramping up layoffs lately. I guess we need to face facts and realize that this is the new normal: constant layoffs both on store and corporate levels.

Well, Q2 is almost in the books, and you know what's cooking in the kitchen besides some 30oz steaks on the grill? More cuts, cut the fat, cut the hype, cut me a steak! Man, make it two!

Getting those lists ready as we really need to make the numbers to show just how much a difference getting a new head honcho is making. Let's make sure to keep it under 50 in every state just so that we don't have to put out any WARN notices, OK?

While we are at it, let's pretend we did something interesting with AI, like a security thing-a-jig that is not AI, but kind of sounds like it is. Or maybe we helped a mid-market company no one has ever heard of doing something wh-z-bang with AI? Yes, that sounds about right. Print it!

And also while no one is paying attention to us (really no one is) let's hire more Cisco folks who are washed up and were on the list for LR (go look it up).

https://www.ad-hoc-news.de/boerse/news/ueberblick/u-s-layoff-wave-triggers-legal-scrutiny-as-243-000-warn-notices-hit-in/69607720

Company-wide/Location Not Specified

• Oracle is cutting 21,000 workers company-wide, with keywords including AI, restructuring, data center costs, and automation.
• Lucid is cutting more than 1,000 workers company-wide, with keywords including EV, cost-cutting, production reduction, and COO departure.
• Ethereum Foundation is cutting 20% of staff company-wide, with keywords including reorganization, leadership exodus, blockchain, and foundation.
• iHeartMedia has layoffs affecting an unknown number of programming workers company-wide, with keywords including programming, strategy shift, decision-making, and innovation.
• Electronic Arts has reported layoffs affecting an unknown number of workers company-wide, with keywords including recruitment, customer support, safety, and IT.
• Wells Fargo has layoffs affecting an unknown number of workers across multiple locations, with keywords including H-1B, reorganization, filings, and banking.

Tennessee

• West Tennessee employers have closures and layoffs affecting nearly 1,900 workers in West Tennessee, with keywords including WARN, closures, layoffs, and 2026.
• An unidentified Brentwood business is closing and cutting 150 workers in Brentwood, with keywords including business closure, layoffs, job loss, and Tennessee.

Massachusetts

• Coca-Cola is closing its Northampton plant and cutting about 175 workers in Northampton, with keywords including plant closure, bottling, WARN, and layoffs.

New Jersey

• Verizon and another New Jersey employer may cut 260 workers in New Jersey, with keywords including WARN, Basking Ridge, employer notices, and layoffs.

California

• Lucid is cutting an unknown number of workers in the Bay Area, with keywords including EV maker, second round, profitability, and layoffs.
• Ubisoft is cutting 93 workers in San Francisco, with keywords including WARN, games, roles, and layoffs.

Arizona

• Lucid is cutting hundreds of workers in Casa Grande, with keywords including EV factory, Arizona, cost-cutting, and layoffs.

Connecticut

• A Bradley International Airport contractor is cutting 100 workers in Windsor Locks, with keywords including airport, contractor, permanent layoffs, and Bradley.
• An unidentified Connecticut employer has announced mass layoffs after losing a prominent contract, with keywords including contract loss, mass layoffs, Connecticut, and Patch.

Kentucky

• Premier Candle U.S. Corp. has layoffs affecting an unknown number of workers in Graves County, with keywords including acquisition, candle company, Mayfield, and workforce cuts.

Michigan

• General Motors has cut 1,000 workers in Detroit, with keywords including EV factory, robots, UAW, and automation.
• General Motors previously had temporary and permanent layoffs affecting 2,500 workers at Factory Zero in Detroit, with keywords including EV factory, temporary layoffs, permanent layoffs, and automakers.

Canada

• Crossley Carpet Mills has issued layoff notices affecting an unknown number of workers in Truro, Nova Scotia, with keywords including carpet, economy, notices, and Canada.

Potential/Unconfirmed Layoffs

• The Senate defense bill seeks to limit future civilian layoffs affecting an unknown number of Department of Defense workers, with keywords including defense bill, cyber talent, protections, and civilian workforce.
• ESPN is reportedly considering mass layoffs affecting an unknown number of workers, with keywords including media, mass layoffs, ESPN, and reporting.
• Nevada Congressman Steven Horsford has proposed an AI-related layoffs transparency law affecting an unknown number of future reported layoffs, with keywords including AI, transparency, legislation, and reporting.
• Federal lawmakers have introduced a bill requiring reporting on AI-related layoffs affecting an unknown number of workers, with keywords including Jacobs, Horsford, Moylan, AI impacts, and Labor Department.
• The U.S. Office of National Intelligence has reported firings affecting an unknown number of workers, with keywords including intelligence, firings, federal workforce, and agency.

National/Other Commentary and Analysis

• Yahoo Tech reports nearly 155,000 tech jobs cut in 2026 across companies including Meta, LinkedIn, Lucid, and Robinhood, with keywords including tech layoffs, TrueUp, 2026, and job cuts.
• TechCrunch tracks major 2026 tech layoffs where employers cited AI, with keywords including running list, tech, AI, and layoffs.
• Business Insider discusses C-suite downsizing at Lucid, with keywords including executives, downsizing, SEC filing, and job cuts.
• MSN lists 15 companies that have said they are doing AI-related layoffs, with keywords including AI, companies, layoffs, and roundup.
• Inc. reports Ikea used AI to grow revenue without layoffs, with keywords including no confirmed layoffs, chatbot, 8,500 workers, and customer calls.
• Supply Chain Management Review reports AI adoption does not match the mass layoff narrative, with keywords including Gartner, AI adoption, workforce reductions, and analysis.
• Bold Journey Magazine discusses bouncing back from job loss, with keywords including job loss, career, layoffs, and advice.
• Tech Policy Press discusses tech union formation amid layoffs, with keywords including union, Meta, AI, and tech layoffs.

What happens if you find another job during the WARN notice period, but before the severance payoff date? What is written into the US agreement?

Delta Air Lines is changing its ground-handling contractor at Bradley International Airport. G2 Secure Staffing, LLC, the current contractor, filed a WARN notice for 100 jobs. This notice indicated potential job eliminations by August 19. Delta clarified the notice relates to a contractor change. G2 employees have been offered positions with the new contractor, HHS.

Windsor Locks, CT

https://patch.com/connecticut/windsorlocks/delta-says-100-bradley-airport-layoffs-may-not-mean-lost-jobs

Ubisoft filed a California WARN notice. This notice confirmed 93 roles were impacted. The layoffs occurred at its San Francisco location. Such reductions can disrupt production schedules and team continuity. This event reflects ongoing volatility in game development jobs.

San Francisco, California

https://gamedev.net/news/ubisoft-eliminates-93-roles-in-san-francisco-r4047/

Spirit Airlines faces a class-action lawsuit from former employees. The suit alleges violations of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act. Workers claim they received no advance notice before layoffs. Spirit argues for exceptions based on unforeseeable events and its financial state. The airline is now winding down during its second bankruptcy.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/spirit-layoff-suit-puts-spotlight-on-labor-rights-in-bankruptcy

Over 5,000 Tennessee workers faced layoffs or closures halfway through 2026. The total reached 5,001 affected workers as of Monday. Recent WARN notices included Hard Rock Cafe, YesCare Corp., and Smurfit Westrock. These companies affected 61, 150, and 52 workers respectively. Tennessee's unemployment rate remained at 3.6% for four consecutive months.

Nashville, Tennessee

https://www.actionnews5.com/2026/06/22/warn-notices-5000-working-tennesseans-affected-by-closures-layoffs-halfway-through-2026-heres-what-we-know/

Arizona

• Lucid Motors is cutting roughly 1,500 workers, representing about 18% of its U.S. workforce and eliminating a production shift at its Arizona factory, with keywords including electric vehicles, restructuring, cost reduction, and manufacturing.

Massachusetts

• Coca-Cola is closing its Northampton, Massachusetts plant and laying off about 175 workers, with keywords including plant closure, beverage manufacturing, state filing, and workforce reduction.
• Baystate Health has confirmed layoffs affecting an unknown number of workers in western Massachusetts amid a reported $60 million budget shortfall, with keywords including healthcare, budget deficit, nursing concerns, and workforce reduction.

New York

• Novartis is laying off 60 workers at a Flatiron biotech operation in New York following its acquisition of Tourmaline Bio, with keywords including biotechnology, acquisition, pharmaceuticals, and workforce reduction.

Ohio

• Senior Resource Connection will begin mass layoffs affecting 160 workers in Ohio starting June 30, with keywords including nonprofit, workforce reduction, staffing changes, and organizational restructuring.
• Orlando Baking Company is actively hiring as more than 700 Schwebel’s employees in Ohio face upcoming layoffs, with keywords including bakery, hiring, workforce transition, and plant employment.

California

• Kabam is consolidating its Los Angeles office and laying off an unknown number of workers, with keywords including gaming, office consolidation, restructuring, and workforce reduction.
• PlayerUnknown Productions has laid off an unknown number of workers in California after failing to secure sufficient funding, with keywords including gaming, funding shortfall, restructuring, and workforce reduction.

Minnesota

• Minnesota Star Tribune is expected to reduce newsroom staffing by about 15% through layoffs and buyouts in Minnesota, with keywords including media, newsroom cuts, buyouts, and workforce reduction.

Germany

• DB Cargo is eliminating 6,200 jobs in Germany by 2030, with keywords including rail freight, restructuring, long-term workforce reduction, and cost savings.

Company-wide/Location Not Specified

• Electronic Arts has reportedly begun layoffs affecting an unknown number of workers, with keywords including gaming, restructuring, workforce reduction, and corporate changes.
• BlackRock has conducted layoffs affecting an unknown number of workers across investment, technology, operations, and private credit teams, with keywords including asset management, efficiency efforts, restructuring, and workforce reduction.
• Meta employees are reporting morale challenges following layoffs and AI-related restructuring, with keywords including artificial intelligence, organizational change, workforce reduction, and employee relations.

Potential/Unconfirmed Layoffs

• CFPB layoffs remain tied up in federal court proceedings and no final workforce reduction has been confirmed, with keywords including litigation, appeals court, government agency, and proposed cuts.
• Spirit Airlines remains involved in litigation related to prior bankruptcy-era layoffs affecting an unknown number of workers, with keywords including bankruptcy, labor rights, legal dispute, and workforce reduction.
• Tennessee WARN filings have affected about 5,001 workers through announced closures and layoffs statewide in 2026, with keywords including WARN notices, facility closures, workforce reductions, and labor market.
• General Motors previously cut more than 1,000 workers and has introduced additional automation initiatives, with keywords including manufacturing, robotics, restructuring, and workforce reduction.

National/Other Commentary and Analysis

• Forbes examined claims that artificial intelligence is driving layoffs and argued the causes are more complex, with keywords including AI, technology, workforce trends, and analysis.
• HRD America reported research showing layoffs can significantly reduce employee trust in management, with keywords including workplace culture, leadership, morale, and analysis.
• Silicon Valley Business Journal analyzed continuing layoff risks for technology workers despite hiring gains, with keywords including technology, labor market, employment trends, and analysis.
• Built In discussed potential long-term business costs associated with AI-driven layoffs, with keywords including artificial intelligence, workforce strategy, business risk, and analysis.
• Newsweek reported on proposed legislation requiring disclosure of layoff plans during visa applications, with keywords including immigration, legislation, transparency, and policy.
• People Matters, Forbes, Yahoo Life UK, and Let’s Data Science reported survey findings showing most executives expect AI-related workforce reductions in coming years, with keywords including artificial intelligence, executive surveys, workforce planning, and labor trends.
• Quiver Quantitative and KOLO reported on legislation that would require companies to identify AI-related layoffs, with keywords including transparency, worker protections, artificial intelligence, and legislation.
• HR Executive analyzed California employer obligations under emerging AI-related workforce regulations, with keywords including compliance, artificial intelligence, labor law, and workforce planning.
• Inc. Magazine and Wall Street Journal published commentary on AI, job security, and organizational impacts of workforce reductions, with keywords including artificial intelligence, employment, business strategy, and analysis.

Digital Room LLC will lay off 69 employees. These job cuts affect its Saddle Brook, New Jersey location. The company filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification. Digital Room LLC is a digital marketing company. It operates 11 locations across the United States and the Philippines.

Saddle Brook, NJ

https://patch.com/new-jersey/ridgewood/bergen-county-company-lay-dozens-employees-september-says-nj-warn-notice

First Student Inc. will lay off 111 employees in Seattle. The company filed a WARN notice regarding these job cuts. Approximately 60% of its Lake City Way operations will cease. The affected workers include 107 bus drivers and 3 technicians. Layoffs are scheduled to begin on August 17.

Seattle, Washington

https://komonews.com/news/local/seattle-schools-bus-drivers-first-student-lays-off-over-100-bus-drivers-lake-city-way-bus-technician-employee-operations-summer-school

Eklind Tool Company will close its Illinois factory. This closure will result in 112 employee layoffs. The layoffs are scheduled for August 10. The company submitted a WARN notice on June 10. Eklind Tool produces specialized items like hex keys.

Franklin Park, Illinois

https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/state/2026/06/21/illinois-manufacturer-announces-plant-closure-and-layoffs-in-cook-county/90606961007/

Strauss Borrelli PLLC is investigating Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation. This investigation concerns a potential mass layoff in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Pilgrim's Pride notified the state of 315 layoffs on June 16, 2026. The firm believes the company may have violated the federal WARN Act. This law requires 60 days' notice before mass layoffs.

Chattanooga, Tennessee

https://straussborrelli.com/2026/06/16/pilgrims-pride-corporation-warn-act-investigation/

What if its the summer equinox after the mid year election on a Tues and I’m on vacation leave. If they send out a notice on a Wednesday before that Tues. how am I affected? Do I get extra pay or am I penalized? I’ve read the handbook and I don’t see a section that covers this.

Dallas-area logistics provider Alan Ritchey Inc. said it will close an Irving transfer center and lay off 232 employees beginning in September, according to a WARN notice filed with state officials. Affected workers include forklift operators, shippers, packers, supervisors and managers.

https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/articles/north-texas-based-logistics-company-220503734.html

Our leadership is so inept, they can’t even do layoffs properly!

If they did a large round of layoffs, it would make the news and they would get a temporary boost to the stock price. They could then reassure the remaining workforce that they’re done with layoffs for at least a year so everyone can focus on their work.

These seemingly random mini layoffs will hurt productivity bigly. They may be doing to avoid filing WARN but it’s still a bad strategy.

Even if I’ve not worked in NY for a full year.

Lists 138 jobs across the state with off payroll of 9/15. That's consistent with dates people have posted on this site.

https://www.nj.gov/labor/assets/PDFs/WARN/2026_WARN_Notice_Archive.pdf

What’s the WARN notice? How does it pertain to being let go?

Vestis Services LLC filed a WARN notice in Pennsylvania. This action affects fewer than a dozen employees. The layoffs became effective June 15 and involve largely remote positions. No facility closures are indicated in Pennsylvania. The company does not expect significant impact on its Northeastern Pennsylvania operations.

https://fox56.com/news/local/vestis-layoffs-expected-to-affect-fewer-than-a-dozen-pennsylvania-workers