Employer · WARN Act history · Other Services
First Transit
784 workers across 6 WARN notices, primarily in VA - recorded in the current PlainLayoffs dataset.
- 784
- Workers cut
- 6
- WARN notices
- 5
- States
- 131
- Avg / notice
First Transit has 6 recorded WARN filings affecting 784 workers
According to WARN Act filings submitted to state workforce agencies, First Transit has 6 recorded filings covering 784 workers across 5 states, primarily VA, the 210th-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.
First Transit is a minor share of Other Services WARN activity — 0.2% of the sector's 460,348 workers across 3,497 employers, ranking #64 in Other Services.
How 784 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.
First Transit 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.
First Transit WARN workers by year and state
Sum of workers_affected on each filing row, crossed by calendar year and filing state, for the top 5 states by total workers affected.
| Year | MD | VA | WA | WI | IN | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 408 | – | – | – | – | 408 |
| 2022 | – | 95 | – | – | – | 95 |
| 2021 | – | 68 | – | 81 | – | 149 |
| 2019 | – | – | 86 | – | – | 86 |
| 2012 | – | – | – | – | 46 | 46 |
First Transit 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.
Prince George’s accounts for 52% of First Transit's named-city WARN workers; the top three cities hold 75.1%.
Lead city Prince George’s · 52% · 6 named cities · top-3 share 75.1%
DOL WARN employer filing desk
Employer FIRST-TRANSI · First Transit 784 workers · 6 filings
NOTC-MID · WORK-HEAVY · PHOTO-UNK · RUNWAY-EXACT · STAT-MULTI · BOOK-MULTI · TYPE-MIX
- NOTC-MID 6 filings
- WORK-HEAVY #210
- PHOTO-UNK No peer
- RUNWAY-EXACT 60d
- STAT-MULTI 5 states
- BOOK-MULTI 5 agencies
- TYPE-MIX 3C/3L
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 First Transit WARN filings · notice runway
Top 5 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.
- Prince George’s, MD · Layoff · Transportation & Warehousing 408 workers · filed Jun 7, 2024 · 23d runway
- Richmond, VA · Layoff · Other Services 95 workers · filed Aug 5, 2022 · 118d runway
- Seattle, WA · Closure · Other Services 86 workers · filed Aug 22, 2019 · 64d runway
- Racine, WI · Closure · Other Services 81 workers · filed Nov 29, 2021 · 63d runway
- Arlington, VA · Layoff · Other Services 68 workers · filed Feb 1, 2021 · 59d runway
Median forward runway across 6 dated filings: 62 days (2 under 60d · 4 at/above 60d ).
What changed - First Transit WARN filings by year
Computed from filed notice dates in this dataset (calendar years), not a vendor release label. Latest compared pair: .
- 2022 → 2024: WARN workers affected for First Transit rose from 95 in 2022 to 408 in 2024; notice count held from 1 to 1.
- 2019 → 2021: WARN workers affected for First Transit rose from 86 in 2019 to 149 in 2021; notice count rose from 1 to 2.
- 2021 → 2022: WARN workers affected for First Transit fell from 149 in 2021 to 95 in 2022; notice count fell from 2 to 1.
Site-wide YoY movers: /changes (RSS). Dataset corrections: /changelog. Year hubs: /year/2024.
Where First Transit 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. First Transit is in the 501-1.5k bucket (#210 of 7,009 by workers affected).
Employer Profile
- Primary State
- VA
- Primary Industry
- Other Services
- First Notice
- May 1, 2012
- Latest Notice
- Jun 7, 2024
Not all layoffs appear in WARN data, see our methodology for the federal + state coverage thresholds. Latest filing: Jun 2024.
WARN Notice History
2024
Prince George’s, MD · Transportation & Warehousing
Effective: Jun 30, 2024
408
workers
Filed Jun 7, 2024
2022
Richmond, VA · Other Services
Effective: Dec 1, 2022
95
workers
Filed Aug 5, 2022
2021
Racine, WI · Other Services
Effective: Jan 31, 2022
81
workers
Filed Nov 29, 2021
Arlington, VA · Other Services
Effective: Apr 1, 2021
68
workers
Filed Feb 1, 2021
2019
Seattle, WA · Other Services
Effective: Oct 25, 2019
86
workers
Filed Aug 22, 2019
2012
Hammond, IN · Transportation & Warehousing
Effective: Jun 30, 2012
46
workers
Filed May 1, 2012
Questions about this First Transit record
What is the largest First Transit WARN filing on record? ▼
The largest row is the mass layoff filed for Prince George’s, MD on Jun 7, 2024, covering 408 workers in Transportation & Warehousing.
Where were First Transit's WARN notices filed? ▼
The filings name Prince George’s, Richmond, and Racine, among 6 named cities; together they form 3 facility closures and 3 mass-layoff filings sourced from Maryland DLLR and Virginia Works and Wisconsin DWD and Washington ESD and Indiana DWD. States represented in this record: IN, MD, VA, WA, WI.
Where is First Transit's WARN footprint concentrated by city? ▼
Prince George’s accounts for 52% of First Transit's named-city WARN workers; the top three cities hold 75.1%.
Does First Transit's filing history show a recurring pattern? ▼
The filing history spans 2012 through 2024 across 5 calendar years; that recurrence is visible in the dated rows rather than inferred from news coverage.
How much advance notice appears in First Transit's record? ▼
The measurable notice runway lands exactly on the federal 60-day baseline; verify the source dates before treating that timing as final.
See also: VA WARN filings · Other Services industry WARNs · WARN Act guide
Source: State WARN Act layoff registries First Transit 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.