West Virginia Layoffs November 2026: WARN Numbers Explained
West Virginia's WARN archive holds 58 non-cancelled imported notices reporting 2,930 workers affected. That is the full picture as of the November 11, 2026 source check — and it comes with a large blank: none of the nine notices filed in 2026 reports a worker count.
These are reported plans, not confirmed job losses. A WARN notice is an advance filing with a state labor agency about a qualifying mass layoff or plant closure. The numbers below describe what was filed, not how many people ultimately lost jobs.
Nine notices in 2026, zero reported workers
All nine of West Virginia's 2026 notices arrived as attributed secondary records, and every one lists its worker count as unavailable. In order of notice date:
- ECM Energy Services — August 19, 2026
- Eagle Horizon Resources — August 1, 2026
- West Virginia Conduent — July 1, 2026
- Felman Productions — July 1, 2026
- Greenbrier Minerals — July 1, 2026
- JeniusBank — June 4, 2026
- Mettiki — April 1, 2026
- Greenbrier Minerals — February 13, 2026
- Mettitki Coal — January 29, 2026
None of the nine carries an effective date in the registry, and the state has zero notices with future effective dates. That means there is no upcoming layoff week to preview for West Virginia — the 2026 filings are notices without a dated, counted event attached.
The names skew toward energy and mining: two Greenbrier Minerals entries, Mettiki and Mettitki Coal, Eagle Horizon Resources, and ECM Energy Services. But without worker counts or localities — every 2026 filing lists its locality as unavailable — the registry cannot say how big any single filing was or where in the state it landed.
The archive in context
Year by year, the imported archive reads:
- 2026: 9 notices, 0 reported workers
- 2025: 21 notices, 0 reported workers
- 2024: 8 notices, 1,172 reported workers
- 2023: 9 notices, 1,309 reported workers
- 2022: 7 notices, 449 reported workers
- 2021: 4 notices, 0 reported workers
The contrast is the story. The last two years produced the most notices in the recent record — 30 combined — and reported zero workers between them. The two years before that produced fewer notices and more than 2,400 reported workers. 2023 remains the heaviest year in the recent archive at 1,309 workers across nine notices, followed by 2024 at 1,172 across eight.
That gap is a coverage gap, not evidence of a quiet labor market. Thirty-six of the 58 notices in the full archive — more than six in ten — have unavailable worker counts. When counts are missing, the registry's totals understate whatever was actually filed.
Why the official record is silent
In the last 365 days, the archive contains zero eligible official filings for West Virginia, and the newest official notice date is December 20, 2024. The full archive splits into 24 direct government records and 34 attributed secondary records — so the recent picture rests entirely on secondary reports, not on official state filings.
That matters for how to read the state. West Virginia is one of the jurisdictions where the official feed has not produced a usable filing in nearly a year. The nine 2026 notices exist in the registry only because secondary sources carried them. If a filing never reached either channel, it does not appear here at all — missing coverage is not zero layoffs.
How to read these numbers
Three rules apply to West Virginia more than most states:
First, treat "0 reported workers" as "unknown," not "nobody affected." Every 2026 and 2025 notice lacks a count, so the zeros in those rows describe the data, not the layoffs.
Second, don't compare the archive total — 2,930 workers across 58 notices — with states whose counts are mostly complete. The denominator is the same kind of record, but the numerator is hollowed out by missing counts.
Third, watch the effective dates, or their absence. With zero future effective dates, nothing in the registry points to a scheduled West Virginia layoff in the coming weeks. That is a statement about the registry, not a forecast that none will happen.
The national picture
Nationally, the registry counted 663 notices covering 63,527 reported workers in the 90-day window, with 30 counts unavailable, updated November 11, 2026. California leads the state ranking at 20,862 workers, followed by Washington at 17,387, Illinois at 3,432, Maryland at 2,667, and Virginia at 2,556.
The heaviest upcoming week nationally is the week of November 25, with 9,858 reported workers, ahead of November 11 (6,146) and November 18 (5,939). Later weeks fall sharply: December 2 (1,990), December 9 (1,746), and December 16 (5,491). West Virginia contributes none of those workers — its filings carry no effective dates at all.
The bottom line
West Virginia's November 2026 picture is defined by what is missing. Nine notices this year, no worker counts, no effective dates, and no official filing in nearly a year. The archive's 2,930 reported workers are real, but they are mostly a record of 2023 and 2024 — and of the 36 notices whose counts never made it into the data.
Data source: Layoff Atlas
