Georg Fischer Signet has filed a WARN notice covering 107 workers in Baldwin Park, California, with an effective date of December 21, 2026. The notice date is October 22, 2026, giving a 60-day gap between the notice and the effective date — exactly the advance-notice period the federal WARN Act generally requires for qualifying layoffs.

The filing is classified as temporary in the Layoff Atlas registry, and its source is listed as the California Employment Development Department (EDD). That classification matters: a temporary filing is not recorded as a permanent plant closure. It describes a planned temporary layoff affecting the listed workers, rather than a shutdown of the site. As with every WARN record, these are reported plans, not confirmed job losses — the notice shows what the employer reported, not a final count of people who ultimately lose work.

The filing in detail

The key facts of the Georg Fischer Signet filing are straightforward:

  • Employer: Georg Fischer Signet
  • Location: Baldwin Park, California
  • Workers affected: 107
  • Notice date: October 22, 2026
  • Effective date: December 21, 2026
  • Notice period: 60 days
  • Type: Temporary
  • Source: California EDD, via Layoff Atlas

The 60-day notice period is worth noting because it matches the federal standard on the nose. Many recent filings land short of, or well beyond, that window — some give barely a month, others give several months. A filing that lands exactly on 60 days gives affected workers the full statutory warning period to plan: to look for new work, to check unemployment eligibility, and to use any employer or state support offered in the meantime. This article makes no claim about compliance beyond the dates themselves; the notice and effective dates are what the record shows.

How this fits California's picture

California remains the largest state in the Layoff Atlas registry by reported workers in the current window, with 18,309 workers, ahead of Washington at 17,050, Illinois at 4,626, Texas at 3,652, and Georgia at 2,492. Nationally, the registry's 90-day window currently holds 694 notices covering 67,083 reported workers, with 30 worker counts unavailable.

California's full archive is far larger than any single filing. The state page lists 17,621 non-cancelled imported notices reporting 1,455,786 workers, with 180 notices carrying future effective dates. In 2026 alone, California accounts for 1,193 notices and 63,959 reported workers, and over the last 365 days the archive holds 1,397 eligible official filings reporting 72,066 workers. The newest official notice date in the archive is October 26, 2026, and the state source was last checked on October 29, 2026.

Against that backdrop, a single 107-worker filing is small — about 0.17 percent of California's 2026 worker total. That scale is normal. Most WARN filings are not headline-sized plant closures; they are mid-sized layoffs, temporary shutdowns, and single-site reductions that add up, week by week, into the state and national totals. Tracking them individually is how the larger picture gets built, and it is also how workers at one site learn what is happening at theirs.

What "temporary" means — and what it does not

A temporary classification should not be read as a promise that every affected worker returns to the same job. Temporary WARN notices cover planned temporary layoffs, and the registry records the classification exactly as the source filing presents it. What happens after the effective date — whether work resumes, is extended, or becomes permanent — is not something a single notice can settle, and later filings or updates would be needed to show it.

For workers in a temporary filing, the practical questions are the same as for any WARN notice: when it takes effect, how long it lasts, and what pay and benefits continue. Those answers come from the employer and California's labor agencies, not from the registry entry.

The weeks ahead

The national calendar around this filing's effective date is uneven. The upcoming weeks currently show 8,693 workers effective in the week of October 29, 3,302 in the week of November 5, 7,521 in the week of November 12, 8,412 in the week of November 19, 5,819 in the week of November 26, and 1,670 in the week of December 3 — a six-week total of 35,417 reported workers. The Georg Fischer Signet workers, effective December 21, fall just after that six-week window, in the next wave of December effective dates that the registry is still filling in.

Why this filing was picked

This article follows the Layoff Atlas rotation of covering the largest recently filed notice with a future effective date that had not already been covered. The homepage's recent dated filings were all covered in the last two weeks except for a small 49-worker filing, so the check moved to California's state page, where Georg Fischer Signet's 107-worker temporary filing was the largest uncovered filing with a future effective date. Larger California filings from the same period, including a 533-worker temporary filing in Corona, were already covered in earlier articles.

All figures in this article come from the Layoff Atlas registry as fetched on October 29, 2026. Worker totals exclude unavailable counts, and coverage varies by state, so missing records should not be read as zero layoffs.

Data source: Layoff Atlas