California Layoff Notices, Fiscal Year 2019-2020

Fiscal year 2019-2020 in numbers

Between July 1, 2019 and June 30, 2020, California employers filed 4,582 WARN notices covering 507,102 workers. 821 were closures and 3,181 were marked temporary. Against 2018-2019 that is an increase of 599% in workers affected. The heaviest month was April 2020 with 238,894 workers in 2,197 notices. This is the COVID-19 year: most of the volume arrived between mid-March and June 2020, under Executive Order N-31-20, which suspended the 60-day requirement for pandemic layoffs while keeping the duty to give notice.

Biggest layoffs of 2019-2020

Month by month

By county

• Los Angeles1,317 notices, 153,474 workers
• San Diego505 notices, 65,138 workers
• Orange450 notices, 51,952 workers
• San Francisco299 notices, 36,164 workers
• Santa Clara336 notices, 31,298 workers
• Alameda182 notices, 28,173 workers
• Riverside181 notices, 19,632 workers
• San Bernardino177 notices, 16,840 workers
• Sacramento129 notices, 11,945 workers
• Ventura162 notices, 11,537 workers
• San Mateo116 notices, 11,352 workers
• Contra Costa75 notices, 6,758 workers
• Monterey42 notices, 5,781 workers
• Fresno50 notices, 5,109 workers
• San Luis Obispo22 notices, 4,708 workers
• Sonoma61 notices, 4,601 workers
• Kern59 notices, 4,557 workers
• Santa Barbara41 notices, 4,307 workers
• Santa Cruz36 notices, 4,093 workers
• San Joaquin42 notices, 3,934 workers
• Solano25 notices, 2,372 workers
• Placer32 notices, 2,353 workers
• Marin29 notices, 2,159 workers
• Stanislaus30 notices, 2,131 workers
• Napa27 notices, 2,101 workers
• Butte10 notices, 1,569 workers
• Yolo29 notices, 1,523 workers
• Tulare19 notices, 1,280 workers
• Madera2 notices, 1,095 workers
• Kings6 notices, 791 workers
• Mendocino8 notices, 746 workers
• El Dorado8 notices, 681 workers
• Shasta13 notices, 670 workers
• Mono2 notices, 584 workers
• Sutter9 notices, 542 workers
• Inyo3 notices, 539 workers
• San Benito6 notices, 536 workers
• Nevada2 notices, 396 workers
• Mariposa4 notices, 388 workers
• Merced6 notices, 339 workers
• Humboldt3 notices, 227 workers
• Imperial8 notices, 225 workers
• Yuba4 notices, 170 workers
• Amador2 notices, 159 workers
• Glenn3 notices, 84 workers
• Tuolumne3 notices, 70 workers
• Plumas2 notices, 67 workers
• Del Norte1 notices, 45 workers
• Calaveras1 notices, 38 workers
• Colusa1 notices, 30 workers
• Tehama1 notices, 10 workers

All notices, newest first

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Source: California EDD WARN report for fiscal year 2019-2020. All years, layoff tracker home.