Frequently Asked Questions

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, federal WARN generally requires 60 calendar days' advance written notice for covered employers and covered plant closings or mass layoffs. Eligibility depends on the employer, site, number of affected full-time workers, timing, and exceptions. The law is intended to give workers and their families time to adjust and seek new employment or retraining.

There are several reasons a layoff may not appear. Federal WARN coverage depends on the employer, site, affected full-time workforce, timing, and exceptions; state mini-WARN laws vary. Some employers who should provide notice may not do so. Additionally, our database reflects publicly available state filings, and some states lag weeks or months in publishing notices.

We hold filings from 23 states, but coverage is uneven and not a complete national census. Some state agencies publish structured, machine-readable WARN registries; others publish little or nothing, and a registry we once ingested can go quiet. The feeds currently keeping pace with our most recent data are WI, FL, WA, OR, CA, TX, MD, IN, VA. The remaining 14 are behind by a median of about 39 months and are flagged as such on their own pages. California uses its own broader WARN law with a lower 75-employee threshold, so its filings are not directly comparable to federal-threshold states.

Honestly: it varies a lot by state, and several of our feeds are behind. We hold filings from 23 states. 9 of those feeds are keeping pace with our most recent data (WI, FL, WA, OR, CA, TX, MD, IN, VA); the other 14 have not produced a new notice in our database for a median of about 39 months, so recent layoffs in those states are likely missing. The newest notice on record is dated August 12, 2026. Every state page shows that state's own last-updated date and warns you when its feed is behind, so check the state page before reading an absence of notices as an absence of layoffs. We do not receive filings in real time from state agencies.

We tag layoffs where the employer's public filing, official statement, or contemporaneous news coverage explicitly cites automation, artificial intelligence, or technology displacement as a contributing reason for the workforce reduction. We do not speculate or infer AI causation, the tag requires explicit attribution from a primary source.

We do not provide bulk data downloads. Our data is derived from public state agency records, and users should obtain raw data directly from the relevant state workforce agency for research or compliance purposes. Links to primary sources are provided where available.

Use our contact page to report data errors. Please include the company name, state, and notice date so we can locate the specific record. Note that worker counts and company names come directly from the original WARN notice, if the error originates in the state filing, we will note it but cannot change the underlying government record.