Layoff records
Washington Layoffs and WARN Notices
WARN notices in Washington
- Notices
- 1,538
- Reported workers
- 250,984
- Scope
- Sum of available source counts; not unique people or confirmed job losses.
Sorted by notice date, newest first. Rows without that date follow dated notices. Reported plans can overlap.
The agency link can open a publication that contains several notices.
0 notices in this result have no worker count.
0 matching notices have no Notice date.
Notice history
Notices by Notice date year from 1988 through today, within the current filters. Future dates and missing dates are outside this chart.
Coverage and source checks
This archive contains 1,538 notices. It can omit publications and layoffs outside WARN reporting. Date ranges show loaded values and do not establish continuous coverage.
Last successful check: 2026-10-09
Latest attempt: 2026-11-09 · Result: Failed
A successful check does not prove complete publication coverage. A recent check of one source does not update another source.
Inspect date ranges and missing fields
- Notice dates as filed
- 2004-01-12 to 2026-10-05
- Effective dates as filed
- 2004-02-05 to 2026-12-31
0 missing notice dates; 0 missing effective dates; 0 missing both; 0 missing worker counts.
34 future effective dates; 0 future notice dates; 0 effective dates before 1988. Source values remain unchanged.
The state page follows the reported worksite state. A source from another jurisdiction can supply a record.
How to read these notices
The notice date records when the notice is reported. The effective date is the planned layoff or closure date. Passing that date does not confirm the outcome.
Reported worker counts can be missing or revised. We sum available counts and do not treat each notice as a separate set of people.
Open a notice to inspect its fields and agency publication. WARN records cover the reporting scope of each source, not all layoffs.
Official worker resources
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Dataset guides and site methods
- [1] XH1B method or registry · XH1B. WARN Notices (mass layoffs): source registry. Source registry entry: warnXH1B dataset description: One row per source_notice_id. The definition of a mass layoff and the layoff threshold vary by state. The threshold is typically 50 or more employees.