A&G Management Files 120-Worker WARN Notice in Anne Arundel, Maryland
A&G Management has filed a WARN notice covering 120 workers in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. The layoff takes effect January 3, 2027, and the notice was filed November 3, 2026 — 61 days ahead of the effective date, one day more than the 60 days the WARN Act requires.
The filing comes from the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, the state's official WARN source. It is the fifth-largest Maryland filing of 2026.
These are reported plans, not confirmed job losses. A WARN notice records what an employer says it plans to do, and plans can change — dates move, headcounts shift, some layoffs are cancelled.
The filing, in detail
- Employer: A&G Management
- Location: Anne Arundel County, Maryland
- Workers affected: 120
- Event type: Layoff
- Notice date: Tuesday, November 3, 2026
- Effective date: Sunday, January 3, 2027
- Source: Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation (official filing)
The registry lists no street address, facility name, or industry for this filing, and no detail about which roles are affected. That is common: state WARN postings vary in how much they publish.
A 61-day notice period
The federal WARN Act requires employers with 100 or more full-time workers to give 60 days' notice before a mass layoff or plant closure. A&G gave 61 days, clearing the minimum by a single day. Maryland's mini-WARN law sets the same 60-day bar.
A notice period that just clears the minimum leaves little slack. If the effective date slips by a few days, the employer is still compliant; if it moves earlier, the notice could fall short. Workers get just over two months between learning about the layoff and the last day of work. That is the whole point of the law: time to plan, not just a warning.
Where A&G sits in Maryland's 2026 picture
Maryland's WARN archive holds 1,437 non-cancelled notices reporting 118,263 workers. In 2026 so far, the state has 123 notices reporting 8,556 workers — about 70 per filing. A&G's 120 is well above that average, about 1.4% of all the workers Maryland has reported this year.
The largest Maryland filings of 2026 put the number in context:
- Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream, Howard County — 803 workers, temporary, effective December 20, 2026
- Aramark Campus, Baltimore — 174 workers, effective November 1, 2026
- CB Manufacturing, Prince George's County — 143 workers, effective November 13, 2026
- ThriftBooks Global, Baltimore — 136 workers, closure, effective October 31, 2026
- A&G Management, Anne Arundel County — 120 workers, effective January 3, 2027
- Pharmaceutics International, Hunt Valley — 94 workers, effective December 29, 2026
Only one recent Maryland filing is larger than A&G's and still ahead: The Container Store's 183-worker closure, effective January 15, 2027, filed November 6. Two identical 30-worker closure records for Lion Brothers in Owings Mills, both effective February 5, 2027, are the other Maryland filings with 2027 dates on the books right now. Maryland has 20 future effective dates in total.
The longer view is quieter. Maryland reported 151 notices and 12,182 workers in 2025, and 84 notices and 7,309 workers in 2024. The 2020 spike — 378 notices and 28,946 workers — still dwarfs any recent year. Over the last 365 days, the state has 142 eligible official filings reporting 9,672 workers, with the newest official notice dated November 6, 2026.
The calendar around January 3
Nationally, the registry's 90-day window holds 665 notices reporting 64,336 workers, updated November 11, 2026. California (20,862) and Washington (17,387) together account for about 59% of the national total; Maryland's 2,667 puts it fourth.
The weeks ahead are uneven: November 25 carries 9,858 scheduled workers, the heaviest week on the calendar, while December 2 (1,990) and December 9 (1,746) are far quieter. A&G's January 3 effective date falls after that December run, in the first days of the new year, rather than inside the crowded November weeks.
What the notice period is for
Sixty-one days is not long to absorb a layoff, but it is time workers would not have without the notice law. The practical steps are the usual ones: confirm the filing with the state labor department, contact the local Rapid Response team for free help with benefits and job search, check unemployment eligibility and deadlines, and review health coverage and severance paperwork before the effective date. If the date changes, the employer owes updated notice.
How to read the number
One hundred and twenty is a reported figure, not a confirmed outcome. WARN data describes plans filed with a state agency, and coverage varies by state — small layoffs below the federal thresholds never appear at all. Maryland's registry is one of the stronger ones, with 1,427 of its 1,437 archive records coming directly from the government, but 42 notices still have unavailable worker counts, so even Maryland's totals are a floor, not a ceiling.
What the filing establishes is specific and checkable: a named employer, a county, a headcount, and two dates, filed with the state on November 3. For the 120 workers in Anne Arundel County, January 3, 2027 is now a fixed point on the calendar — and the 61 days between notice and effect are the window to prepare.
Data source: Layoff Atlas
