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WARN Act Layoffs by State

23 states have WARN filings on record. Coverage is deepest for California, Texas, Washington and Oregon, which publish structured, regularly-updated registries.

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the federal WARN Act requires advance notice of mass layoffs of 50 or more workers. PlainLayoffs has compiled 8,799 such notices covering 1,411,206 workers across 23 states as of June 2026. See our methodology for sourcing.

Coverage status: 23 of 51 states/territories have WARN filings on record, this is not a complete 50-state census. Coverage depends on each agency’s publishing practices.