JP Morgan Chase Files 91-Worker WARN Notice in Jersey City, Effective October 30, 2026
JP Morgan Chase has filed a WARN notice reporting 91 workers affected in Jersey City, New Jersey, effective October 30, 2026. The filing, recorded through the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, surfaced in the Layoff Atlas registry on November 11 — nearly two weeks after the layoffs were scheduled to take effect.
That timing matters: the whole point of a WARN notice is advance warning, and this record arrived after the fact. The public registry shows what states publish, when they publish it — not always when workers first learned their jobs were at risk.
These are reported plans, not confirmed job losses. The figures below come from the filing and the registry's state and national totals, which change as new notices are published.
The filing, in detail
The record states:
- Employer: JP Morgan Chase
- Location: Jersey City, New Jersey
- Workers affected: 91
- Planned effective date: October 30, 2026
- Notice date: Unavailable
- Source: New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development
- Event type: Unavailable
- Record updated in the registry: November 11, 2026
The filing gives no worksite address, no county, and no ZIP code, and it does not say whether the 91 workers were in one office or spread across teams, or whether the action was a layoff, a closure, or a reorganization. The registry lists the event type as unavailable.
What is clear is the size and the place. Ninety-one workers is a mid-sized filing — large enough to matter to the people involved, small enough that it would not make national headlines. Jersey City is one of the country's densest financial centers, across the Hudson from Manhattan, and JP Morgan Chase is one of its largest employers.
What the missing notice date means
The federal WARN Act generally requires employers with 100 or more full-time employees to give 60 days' written notice before a plant closing or a mass layoff. New Jersey's own mini-WARN law goes further, requiring 90 days' notice when 50 or more full-time employees are affected.
Whether this filing met either standard cannot be determined from the record, because the notice date is listed as unavailable. That gap is common: 30 of the 677 notices in the current 90-day window have unavailable worker counts, and some records arrive without a notice date entirely.
There are a few possible explanations: the notice may have been filed on time but published late, or the state may have received it without a date attached. Workers affected by the filing would know their own timeline; the public record does not.
The lesson holds for every WARN record with a missing field: read what is there, note what is not, and do not assume the missing piece in either direction. A missing notice date is neither evidence of a violation nor evidence of compliance.
New Jersey in the national picture
New Jersey's registry page holds 2,348 non-cancelled imported WARN notices reporting 377,051 workers affected across the full archive. For 2026 alone, the state shows 142 notices covering 18,011 workers. Another 11 notices, covering 1,518 workers, carry effective dates in 2027, and 26 notices in the state have future effective dates.
The JP Morgan Chase filing is one of the most recent New Jersey records to surface. Others recently imported from the state include the Children's Place distribution notice (732 workers, effective February 4, 2027), AT&T (50 workers, January 31, 2027), UBS (39 workers, February 2, 2027), and Comcast (119 workers, January 27, 2027). Together, those five filings account for 1,031 workers — and four of the five take effect in 2027, not 2026.
Nationally, the registry shows 677 notices covering 62,093 reported workers in the 90-day window, updated November 12, 2026. California leads with 22,115 workers, followed by Washington with 17,387, Maryland with 2,667, Virginia with 2,556, and Texas with 2,419. The heaviest upcoming week is November 19, with 8,412 workers scheduled, followed by November 12 with 7,578 and November 26 with 6,032.
JP Morgan Chase's WARN history
This is not the company's first appearance in WARN records. Earlier filings include a 107-worker notice in Elgin, Illinois (2016); a 372-worker closure in Troy, Michigan (2013); a 561-worker filing in Maryland (2010); a 45-worker closure in Tukwila, Washington (2009); and a 19-worker closure in Portland, Oregon (2009).
That history spans more than a decade and five states, with filings that are occasional, scattered, and usually modest next to the company's total workforce. The Jersey City filing fits that pattern, and it is the company's first in the current 90-day window.
How to read a filing like this
A WARN notice answers five questions: who, where, how many, when, and what kind of action. This filing answers three of them clearly and leaves two blank. That is normal for the registry, and it is why each article in this series spells out what is known and what is not.
If you work in Jersey City and this filing affects you, the notice itself is only the starting point. New Jersey's rapid response services, unemployment insurance, and the state's 90-day notice rule are the practical next steps, with the federal WARN Act's 60-day rule as the floor underneath them. If the notice you received does not match the dates in the public record, that discrepancy is worth raising with the state labor department.
Data source: Layoff Atlas.
