In the 12 months to October 20, 2026, 14 employers in retail trade filed 174 WARN notices, naming at least 22,962 workers, and 1 more is filed for a date after that, naming 374 workers. The 12 months before had 52 notices naming 5,750 workers.
These are the employers whose industry we know from the NAICS code on their own H-1B wage filings. Together they filed notices naming 26% of the year's workers, so this page shows part of retail trade, and a count here is a floor.
Notices dated October 21, 2025 to October 20, 2026. 2 of 174 list no headcount, so the worker total is a floor. By state, in workers: California 7,029, Washington 5,164, Florida 2,591, Pennsylvania 1,418, New York 1,281, New Jersey 1,070, Maryland 1,016, Illinois 941. What we count.
The 10 largest of 14 employers, by workers named.
Newest first. The date shown is the notice date, or the effective date where a state publishes only that. How to read a WARN notice.
Showing the 30 newest of 175 notices.
BLS counted 345,000 workers who had held a job in retail trade for three or more years and lost it between January 2023 and December 2025 because a plant or company closed or moved, there was too little work or their position was abolished. That is 10% of all 3.3 million such workers.
In January 2026, 69.1% of them were working again, 16.6% were unemployed and 14.3% were out of the labor force. Across every industry the figures were 66.1%, 18.3% and 15.7%.
These are people who lost a job at an employer of any size, counted in a household survey. A layoff notice lists no worker by name, and neither source says how likely your own job is to end. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Worker Displacement: 2023-2025 (released August 27, 2026), Table 4.
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Source: the open WARN Notice Register, which consolidates the WARN listings that state workforce agencies publish. Our copy is current through October 20, 2026. WARN notices are the advance filings that employers with roughly 100 or more employees send to state agencies before a layoff or closure, typically 60 days ahead. Each entry is a filing: headcounts and dates are as the employer or state recorded them, a notice can later be revised, and a count tracks company size as well as layoffs. An employer is placed in an industry by the NAICS code it writes on its own H-1B wage filings: at least 10 filings between the names it files under, 60% of them in one two-digit sector, and a filing in a state it filed a notice in. A code for the management of companies says how a filer is organized, so it places no one. An employer with no such filings, or one that files under several sectors, has no industry here. 93,872 of the 359,227 workers named in the year, 26%, are in a notice from an employer placed in a listed industry. A listing that repeats an earlier one is counted once, and a notice the register labels is left out of the counts. How to read layoff notice data sets out what the notices can and cannot say and why some are missing. Informational only; not legal, immigration, or financial advice.
Wage data: U.S. Department of Labor OFLC LCA Disclosure Data and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS. LCA filings reflect sponsored-worker wage offers, which skew toward mid-large employers and specific occupations — treat any estimate built from a small sample cautiously. Informational only; not legal, immigration, or financial advice.