Most California companies must give their employees 60 days' notice before laying off more than 50 workers. Since the recession began in late 2007, companies gave notice to roughly 200,000 California workers during mass layoffs, including more than 10,000 in the Sacramento area. Use this database to see which companies have pink-slipped the most workers.
Updated on Dec. 16, 2009.
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Companies laying off the most California workers, Jan. 2008-Dec. 2009:
Source: California Employment Development Department --
Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Records; Bee Research by Phillip Reese
Notes: Employers must file warning notices when there is a plant closing, layoff or relocation of 50 or more employees within a 30-day period. Relocation is defined as a move to a different location more than 100 miles away.
So, for the most part, only mass layoffs are reflected in the WARN Act filings. Also, some listings reflect short-term layoffs that are quickly rescinded, as when a retailer moves to a new location and imposes a temporary layoff. Sometimes, an employer will file a new WARN notice when modifying a layoff action, and both actions could appear in this data. Since these are notices, some recently-announced layoffs in this data show planned, rather than actual layoffs -- e.g., 2010 layoffs. Governmental agencies generally don't file WARN notices, and usually won't show up in this database.
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