Grimmway Farms layoff notices at a glance
Grimmway Farms has filed 4 WARN notices with the California Employment Development Department between May 23, 2017 and May 3, 2018, naming 585 workers. 2 were closures and 2 were layoffs; 3 permanent, 1 temporary. The largest single notice named 217 workers in Kern County on May 23, 2017. Its latest notice, 201 workers in Kern County dated May 3, 2018, was 8.4% of the 2,391 workers named in all 10 Kern County notices of fiscal year 2017-2018. The same employer appears in 11 U.S. Labor Department wage and hour investigations, with $13,707 in back wages agreed for 106 workers.
Every notice, newest first
| Notice date | Effective | County | City | Workers | Type | Days notice |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 2018 | Jul 6, 2018 | Kern | Bakersfield | 201 | Closure, temporary | 64 |
| May 23, 2017 | Jul 28, 2017 | Kern | Bakersfield | 217 | Layoff, permanent | 66 |
| May 23, 2017 | Jul 28, 2017 | Kern | Arvin | 114 | Layoff, permanent | 66 |
| May 23, 2017 | Jul 28, 2017 | Kern | Edison | 53 | Closure, permanent | 66 |
Where the notices landed
- Kern County4 notices, 585 workers
- Bakersfield2 notices, 418 workers
- Arvin1 notice, 114 workers
- Edison1 notice, 53 workers
Local pages: Bakersfield employment lawyer, Kern County employment law guide.
How to read this record
Notice date is the date on the employer's letter. Effective is the first day of separations it announced. Days notice is the gap between them; California Labor Code 1401 calls for 60 days from a covered employer, and section 1402 makes a short notice worth a day of pay and benefits for every day it is short, up to 60.
Every notice on file for Grimmway Farms shows 60 days or more between the two dates, which is what the statute expects. The questions that remain for a worker are the ones the notice does not answer: whether pay and benefits ran through the effective date, whether final wages arrived on the last day (Labor Code 201 and 203), and who was selected and why.
One notice is marked temporary. A temporary layoff that runs past six months is treated as a termination under the federal Act, and the employer should issue a new notice before that point.
Full statute walk-through: the California 60-day rule, section by section.
If you work, or worked, at Grimmway Farms
Keep the notice, every email about the selection, and your final pay stub. A free review covers four things in one call: whether the notice period was honored and paid, whether final pay and vacation payout arrived on time, whether the selection pattern raises an age, pregnancy or leave, or retaliation question, and what a proposed severance release is actually worth before you sign it. Call (800) 371-3088 or send the notice.
Source: California EDD WARN reports, fiscal years 2016-2017 to 2017-2018. Record last checked against the EDD on Oct 30, 2026. Back to the layoff tracker.
About this data: Notices come from the California Employment Development Department WARN reports (fiscal years 2014-2015 to today) and are reloaded from the EDD every Tuesday and Thursday. Employer names appear as the employer wrote them on the notice, grouped where the names clearly refer to the same company. A notice is not a finding that any law was broken. This page is general information, not legal advice about your situation.