District of Columbia Layoffs November 2026: WARN Numbers Explained

The District of Columbia's layoff picture in 2026 is dominated by a single large filing and a cluster of political-committee notices landing in mid-November. The official WARN record shows 18 notices and 3,296 reported workers so far this year, while the full imported archive — which also includes attributed secondary reports — runs to 151 notices and 27,000 workers.

Those two sets of numbers measure different things, and the gap between them matters. The 18 official filings are notices filed directly with the DC Department of Employment Services. The archive total adds secondary reports attributed to the District, which widens coverage but mixes sources of different reliability. This article uses the official figures as its anchor.

The headline numbers

Within the last 365 days, DC's imported archive contains 18 eligible official filings reporting 3,296 affected workers. One worker count is unavailable, so the true total is slightly higher. The newest official notice date is September 14, 2026. Three notices in the archive still have future effective dates, meaning their layoffs have not yet taken effect.

Across the full archive, 19 records come directly from government sources and 132 are attributed secondary records. Three notices overall have unavailable worker counts. None of these figures count unique people: a worker named in two notices, or a filing later revised, can appear more than once.

The filings that shaped the year

One filing accounts for more than a third of DC's official 2026 worker total. Medical Facility Associates filed a notice on July 8, 2026 covering 1,270 workers, effective September 6. It is by far the largest single DC filing of the year, and the largest in the District's recent record.

The next tier is a cluster of political organizations, all noticed on the same day — September 14, 2026 — with effective dates in mid-November. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee reported 207 workers effective November 13. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee reported 111 workers effective November 17. The Democratic National Committee filed a notice the same day with its worker count unavailable, also effective November 13. Together, the three committees account for at least 318 workers, and the real number is higher once the DNC count is known.

Other notable 2026 filings include Ideal US Talent Systems Worker Op with 307 workers effective July 1, WP with 277 workers effective April 10, General Dynamics Information Technology with 174 workers effective August 8 (plus two smaller GDIT filings of 87 and 64 workers), Republic National Distributing with 125 workers, Noblis with 115, and Bering Global Solutions with 108.

The pattern is familiar for the District: health care, government contracting, and political organizations dominate the list, rather than the manufacturing or logistics filings that lead in other states.

What the year-by-year history shows

DC's 2026 total of 3,296 workers across 18 notices already exceeds the full-year 2024 figure of 1,143 workers across 9 notices, and sits below 2025's 4,268 workers across 36 notices. The longer view puts both years in perspective: 2020, the pandemic year, produced 53 notices and 13,189 workers — roughly four times the 2026 total so far. The years since have been far quieter: 264 workers in 2021, 1,319 in 2022, and 811 in 2023.

The comparison to 2025 is the more useful one. Last year had twice as many notices as 2026 so far but only about 30 percent more workers, which means 2026's filings have been larger on average. The Medical Facility Associates filing alone explains most of that difference. Without it, the 2026 worker total would be 2,026 — below the 2025 pace.

What is still to come

Three notices have future effective dates. The DCCC and DNC filings take effect November 13, and the DSCC filing takes effect November 17. Those dates fall inside a nationally heavy stretch: across the United States, the week beginning November 25 is the heaviest upcoming week, with 9,858 reported workers, and the weeks beginning November 11 and November 18 carry 6,146 and 5,939 workers respectively.

Nationally, the 90-day window on Layoff Atlas currently shows 661 notices covering 62,751 reported workers, with 30 counts unavailable. California leads the states with 20,862 workers, followed by Washington with 17,387. The District's 3,296 workers are a small share of that national total, but the concentration matters locally: DC's economy is small, and a single 1,270-worker filing lands harder there than the same number would in California.

How to read these numbers

Three cautions apply to every figure in this article. First, WARN notices are reported plans, not confirmed job losses: a filing can be amended, reduced, or withdrawn, and some planned layoffs never happen. Second, coverage is partial — the registry covers 51 jurisdictions, but only 48 have imported records, and reporting rules vary by state. Missing coverage is not zero layoffs.

The bottom line

DC's 2026 WARN record is a story of one very large health-care filing, a mid-November cluster of political-committee notices, and a quieter background of government-contractor layoffs. At 18 official notices and 3,296 workers, the year is running ahead of 2024 and behind 2025 on workers, with the Medical Facility Associates filing doing most of the work. The three filings effective November 13 and 17 will close out the year's official count, unless new notices arrive before year-end.

Data source: Layoff Atlas