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WARN Act Activity Lookup

Pick your state and industry to see the WARN Act notice record for your slice: total filings, workers affected, 3-year trend, state ranking, and 4 peer states from real DOL and state-agency data.

Look up WARN Act layoff notice activity for your state and industry

According to WARN Act filings submitted to state workforce agencies, PlainLayoffs has recorded notices from 2008 through 2026 across 23 states and 19 industries. Select your state and industry to see the filing record for your specific combination: total notices, workers affected, trend, and how your state ranks among peers. This is a record of WARN Act notices filed with state workforce agencies, not a comprehensive layoff census or a risk prediction.

Your State & Industry

23 states with WARN Act records in our database

As classified on WARN Act filings

About This Tool

This lookup draws on the PlainLayoffs database of WARN Act filings submitted to state workforce agencies since 2008. Select your state and industry to see the recorded notice history for that specific combination: total filings, workers covered, a 3-year trend window, your state's rank among all states with data for that industry, and the four states with the most similar filing patterns for side-by-side context.

What WARN Act notices are not: they are formal legal filings by employers planning qualifying mass layoffs or plant closings. They do not capture layoffs below the federal threshold (typically 50+ workers at an employer with 100+ employees), small-employer reductions, voluntary separations, or attrition. For the full legal definition, see our WARN Act guide .

How the trend works: the 3-year windows are anchored to the most recent filing date in our database (June 2026), not to today's calendar date. This ensures the comparison is stable and data-anchored, not artificially shifted by when you visit.

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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. WARN Act notices filed with U.S. state workforce agencies, compiled from official state and DOL sources. See /methodology for full sourcing details. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of June 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.