How to read these records

Which employers

Every notice in the California EDD WARN reports marked as a permanent closure, from July 2022 to October 2026, grouped by employer name. Employers whose closures affected 50 workers or more in total are kept. Layoffs that are not closures, temporary closures, schools, health and care providers are left out.

A closure is not the end of the company

A notice says that a site closes. A retailer closing one store, a manufacturer moving a plant, and a company shutting down completely all file the same notice. The record cannot tell them apart.

What is not here

Addresses of the sites, names of contacts or any individual, and layoffs that are not closures.