Employer · WARN Act history · Manufacturing
Cox Automotive
502 workers across 4 WARN notices, primarily in WA - recorded in the current PlainLayoffs dataset.
- 502
- Workers cut
- 4
- WARN notices
- 4
- States
- 126
- Avg / notice
Cox Automotive has 4 recorded WARN filings affecting 502 workers
According to WARN Act filings submitted to state workforce agencies, Cox Automotive has 4 recorded filings covering 502 workers across 4 states, primarily WA, the 370th-largest recorded WARN footprint among 7,009 tracked employers. WARN notices cover qualifying reported events, so this record is not a complete count of the employer's workforce changes.
Cox Automotive is a minor share of Manufacturing WARN activity — 0.2% of the sector's 211,445 workers across 776 employers, ranking #52 in Manufacturing.
Cox Automotive WARN workers by state
Sum of workers_affected on each filing row, grouped by the state agency that received the notice, not a corporate headcount by HQ state.
Cox Automotive city concentration · concentrated
Named cities on WARN filing rows only (city blank on a filing is omitted). Shares are of the city-tagged worker total, not every notice in the record.
6 accounts for 47.5% of Cox Automotive's named-city WARN workers; the top three cities hold 100%.
Lead city 6 · 47.5% · 3 named cities · top-3 share 100%
DOL WARN employer filing desk
Employer COX-AUTOMOTI · Cox Automotive 502 workers · 4 filings
NOTC-LIGHT · WORK-MID · PHOTO-UNK · RUNWAY-SHORT · STAT-MULTI · BOOK-MULTI · TYPE-LAYOFF
- NOTC-LIGHT 4 filings
- WORK-MID #370
- PHOTO-UNK No peer
- RUNWAY-SHORT 8d
- STAT-MULTI 4 states
- BOOK-MULTI 4 agencies
- TYPE-LAYOFF 4 layoffs
Stamps derive from filed notice_date, effective_date, workers_affected, state agency source, and filing type in this dataset, not a prediction of future layoffs.
Largest Cox Automotive WARN filings · notice runway
Top 4 rows by workers_affected from this employer's filed notices. Runway = calendar days from notice_date to effective_date when both are published and forward-dated.
- CO · Layoff · Information Technology 163 workers · filed May 8, 2020 · 0d runway
- 6, MD · Layoff · Wholesale Trade 161 workers · filed May 8, 2020 · 9d runway
- Kent, WA · Layoff · Manufacturing 123 workers · filed May 11, 2020 · 6d runway
- Harrisonburg, VA · Layoff · Manufacturing 55 workers · filed May 8, 2020 · 9d runway
Median forward runway across 4 dated filings: 8 days (4 under 60d · 0 at/above 60d · 1 same-day or retroactive).
Where Cox Automotive Falls Among Tracked Employers
7,009 employers with a WARN filing, bucketed by total workers affected
Bucket counts (employers by total workers affected, as of September 2026): 1-10: 955; 11-50: 1,411; 51-150: 3,067; 151-500: 1,205; 501-1.5k: 273; 1.5k-5k: 72; 5k-15k: 16; 15k+: 10. Cox Automotive is in the 501-1.5k bucket (#370 of 7,009 by workers affected).
Employer Profile
- Primary State
- WA
- Primary Industry
- Manufacturing
- First Notice
- May 8, 2020
- Latest Notice
- May 11, 2020
Not all layoffs appear in WARN data, see our methodology for the federal + state coverage thresholds. Latest filing: May 2020.
WARN Notice History
2020
Kent, WA · Manufacturing
Effective: May 17, 2020
123
workers
Filed May 11, 2020
Harrisonburg, VA · Manufacturing
Effective: May 17, 2020
55
workers
Filed May 8, 2020
CO · Information Technology
Effective: May 8, 2020
163
workers
Filed May 8, 2020
6, MD · Wholesale Trade
Effective: May 17, 2020
161
workers
Filed May 8, 2020
Questions about this Cox Automotive record
What is the largest Cox Automotive WARN filing on record? ▼
The largest row is the mass layoff filed for CO on May 8, 2020, covering 163 workers in Information Technology.
Where were Cox Automotive's WARN notices filed? ▼
The filings name Kent, Harrisonburg, and 6; together they form 4 mass-layoff filings sourced from Washington ESD and Virginia Works and Colorado CDLE and Maryland DLLR. States represented in this record: CO, MD, VA, WA.
Where is Cox Automotive's WARN footprint concentrated by city? ▼
6 accounts for 47.5% of Cox Automotive's named-city WARN workers; the top three cities hold 100%.
Does Cox Automotive's filing history show a recurring pattern? ▼
All 4 filings fall in 2020, so the record describes a concentrated episode rather than a multi-year cadence.
How much advance notice appears in Cox Automotive's record? ▼
The measurable notice runway is under 30 days; compare the filing dates with the federal 60-day baseline before estimating any possible notice-pay shortfall. Of 4 filings on record, 1 without a published effective date is excluded from that figure.
See also: WA WARN filings · Manufacturing industry WARNs · WARN Act guide
Source: State WARN Act layoff registries Cox Automotive notice history aggregated from state workforce agency filings · September 2026 A WARN filing is a required notice, not a judgment of the employer's management or finances. Coverage follows states with structured public registries; this public-record summary is not legal advice, financial advice, or employment advice.
Every figure on PlainLayoffs is rendered directly from public WARN Act filings and state workforce agency records, no number is typed in by an editor. This employer's notice history is rendered directly from state WARN Act filings. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2026. A WARN filing is a legally required notice, not a judgment of a company's management or financial health; rankings here reflect filed notice volume only.