California WARN filings

Layoff Notices by Year

Benjamin Eghbali, Esq.Legal notes by Benjamin Eghbali, Esq.

Twelve fiscal years of California WARN filings, with the current year updated twice a week.

Every WARN notice filed with the California EDD since July 2014: 17,562 notices, 8,284 employers, 1,453,182 workers.

California WARN notices by fiscal year

The EDD reports by state fiscal year, July 1 to June 30.

Fiscal yearNoticesEmployersClosuresWorkers
2026-20274011739923,100
2025-20261,59567343781,876
2024-20251,50657258793,273
2023-20241,80969048693,530
2022-20231,42361735990,659
2021-202259232626237,369
2020-20212,0641,427445203,269
2019-20204,5823,695821507,102
2018-201983149244072,578
2017-201864440031459,180
2016-201765436531360,561
2015-201672340330569,361
2014-201573838622861,324

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.

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