Employer · WARN Act history · Health Care & Social Assistance
CVS Health
5,096 workers across 3 WARN notices, primarily in VA - recorded in the current PlainLayoffs dataset.
- 5,096
- Workers cut
- 3
- WARN notices
- 3
- States
- 1,699
- Avg / notice
CVS Health has 3 recorded WARN filings affecting 5,096 workers
According to WARN Act filings submitted to state workforce agencies, CVS Health has 3 recorded filings covering 5,096 workers across 3 states, primarily VA, the 26th-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.
CVS Health is a major Health Care & Social Assistance contributor — 8.2% of the sector's 62,393 WARN-laid-off workers across 517 employers, ranking #1 in Health Care & Social Assistance.
How 5,096 workers split by filing year
Calendar-year totals from WARN notice_date fields in this dataset, the same figures summed in the notice history below.
CVS Health 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.
CVS Health WARN workers by year and state
Sum of workers_affected on each filing row, crossed by calendar year and filing state, for the top 3 states by total workers affected.
| Year | RI | FL | VA | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | – | 53 | – | 53 |
| 2023 | 5,000 | – | 43 | 5,043 |
CVS Health city concentration · single-city dominant
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.
98.1% of named-city WARN workers for CVS Health sit in Woonsocket (5,000 of 5,096).
Lead city Woonsocket · 98.1% · 3 named cities · top-3 share 100%
DOL WARN employer filing desk
Employer CVS-HEALTH · CVS Health 5,096 workers · 3 filings
NOTC-LIGHT · WORK-TOP · PHOTO-UNK · RUNWAY-EXACT · STAT-MULTI · BOOK-MULTI · TYPE-MIX
- NOTC-LIGHT 3 filings
- WORK-TOP #26
- PHOTO-UNK No peer
- RUNWAY-EXACT 60d
- STAT-MULTI 3 states
- BOOK-MULTI 3 agencies
- TYPE-MIX 1C/2L
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 CVS Health WARN filings · notice runway
Top 3 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.
- Woonsocket, RI · Layoff · Health Care & Social Assistance 5,000 workers · filed Aug 17, 2023 · 0d runway
- Tampa, FL · Layoff · Health Care & Social Assistance 53 workers · filed Nov 26, 2024 · 60d runway
- Ashland, VA · Closure · Health Care & Social Assistance 43 workers · filed Aug 18, 2023 · 64d runway
Median forward runway across 3 dated filings: 60 days (1 under 60d · 2 at/above 60d · 1 same-day or retroactive).
What changed - CVS Health WARN filings by year
Computed from filed notice dates in this dataset (calendar years), not a vendor release label. Latest compared pair: .
- 2023 → 2024: WARN workers affected for CVS Health fell from 5,043 in 2023 to 53 in 2024; notice count fell from 2 to 1.
Site-wide YoY movers: /changes (RSS). Dataset corrections: /changelog. Year hubs: /year/2024.
Where CVS Health 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. CVS Health is in the 5k-15k bucket (#26 of 7,009 by workers affected).
Employer Profile
- Primary State
- VA
- Primary Industry
- Health Care & Social Assistance
- First Notice
- Aug 17, 2023
- Latest Notice
- Nov 26, 2024
Not all layoffs appear in WARN data, see our methodology for the federal + state coverage thresholds. Latest filing: Nov 2024.
WARN Notice History
2024
Tampa, FL · Health Care & Social Assistance
Effective: Jan 25, 2025
53
workers
Filed Nov 26, 2024
2023
Ashland, VA · Health Care & Social Assistance
Effective: Oct 21, 2023
43
workers
Filed Aug 18, 2023
Woonsocket, RI · Health Care & Social Assistance
Effective: Aug 17, 2023
5,000
workers
Filed Aug 17, 2023
Questions about this CVS Health record
What is the largest CVS Health WARN filing on record? ▼
The largest row is the mass layoff filed for Woonsocket, RI on Aug 17, 2023, covering 5,000 workers in Health Care & Social Assistance.
Where were CVS Health's WARN notices filed? ▼
The filings name Tampa, Ashland, and Woonsocket; together they form 1 facility closure and 2 mass-layoff filings sourced from Florida Commerce and Virginia Works and the public WARN archive. States represented in this record: FL, RI, VA.
Where is CVS Health's WARN footprint concentrated by city? ▼
98.1% of named-city WARN workers for CVS Health sit in Woonsocket (5,000 of 5,096).
Does CVS Health's filing history show a recurring pattern? ▼
The filing history spans 2023 through 2024 across 2 calendar years; that recurrence is visible in the dated rows rather than inferred from news coverage.
How much advance notice appears in CVS Health's record? ▼
The measurable notice runway lands exactly on the federal 60-day baseline; verify the source dates before treating that timing as final. Of 3 filings on record, 1 without a published effective date is excluded from that figure.
See also: VA WARN filings · Health Care & Social Assistance industry WARNs · WARN Act guide · largest WARN employers
Source: State WARN Act layoff registries CVS Health 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.