Roundabout Entertainment Files 81-Worker WARN Notice for Burbank Closure, Effective December 29, 2026
Roundabout Entertainment has filed a WARN notice covering 81 workers at its Burbank, California location, with the closure effective December 29, 2026. The notice is dated October 30, 2026, and was filed through California's official WARN feed, published by the California Employment Development Department (EDD). It is a closure filing, which means the notice covers a shutdown of the Burbank operation rather than a partial reduction in staff.
The filing is one of the larger still-uncovered notices from California's October 30 batch, a single day that produced a cluster of year-end filings across the state.
The filing at a glance
- Employer: Roundabout Entertainment
- Location: Burbank, California
- Workers affected: 81
- Event type: Closure
- Effective date: December 29, 2026
- Notice date: October 30, 2026
- Source: California EDD, via the state's official WARN feed
These are reported plans, not confirmed job losses. A WARN filing records what an employer has told the state it intends to do. The actual number of workers who lose their jobs can differ if plans change, and a filing can be amended, postponed, or cancelled before the effective date.
Exactly 60 days of notice
The gap between the October 30 notice date and the December 29 effective date is exactly 60 days. That is the federal WARN Act's minimum notice period for a covered employer: 60 calendar days before a plant closing or mass layoff.
Hitting the minimum exactly is common in this data. Danone USA's 135-worker Chatsworth closure, noticed the same day, is also effective December 29, exactly 60 days later. Fender Musical Instruments' 533-worker Corona filing and Georg Fischer Signet's 107-worker Baldwin Park filing were both noticed 60 days before their effective dates.
A 60-day gap is not, on its own, a sign of a problem. It is the floor the law sets, and many employers plan to it. What matters for workers is what the notice period is used for: Rapid Response services, unemployment claims, job searches, and benefits decisions all run on that clock.
A busy October 30 notice batch
Roundabout's notice was one of several California filings dated October 30, 2026. The same batch included Danone USA's 135-worker closure in Chatsworth, also effective December 29; iLEAD Lancaster's 119-worker layoff, effective December 31; The Vons Companies' 78-worker closure in Anaheim Hills, effective January 2, 2027; and Renewable Solar's 56-worker layoff in Hanford, effective December 30.
The batch shows how year-end layoff dates cluster: the 60-day rule pushes notice dates back to late October for effective dates at the end of December.
December 31 remains the heaviest single date. Its national cluster includes AEG Management Oakland's 1,605-worker filing, Comcast Technology Center's 634-worker Philadelphia filing, and Chick-fil-A's 87-worker Oxnard closure. December 29 is quieter, but with Roundabout and Danone together it now accounts for 216 workers in California alone.
California in the national picture
California continues to lead the national WARN totals. In the current 90-day window, California accounts for 20,969 reported workers, ahead of Washington at 17,411. Illinois (3,649), Texas (2,863), and Virginia (2,373) round out the top five. Nationally, the registry holds 680 notices covering 64,883 reported workers in the 90-day window, with 28 notices carrying no worker count.
California's full imported archive is far larger: 17,657 non-cancelled notices reporting 1,459,656 workers, with 147 notices carrying future effective dates. In 2026 alone, the state has recorded 1,229 notices covering 67,829 workers.
The six weeks ahead nationally total 29,102 scheduled workers: 3,302 in the week of November 5, 7,578 in the week of November 12, 8,412 in the week of November 19, 6,032 in the week of November 26, 1,819 in the week of December 3, and 1,959 in the week of December 10. The week of November 19 is the heaviest; December's first two weeks are the lightest by a wide margin.
How to read this number
Eighty-one workers is a mid-sized filing. It clears the federal WARN thresholds — an employer with 100 or more full-time employees, and a plant closing affecting 50 or more — and it also clears California's Cal-WARN thresholds, which apply at 75 employees and treat a closure of 50 or more as a covered event.
Three cautions apply to this figure, as they do to every WARN number. First, the 81 workers are a planned count, not a confirmed outcome. Second, the registry records the filing as the employer reported it; Layoff Atlas does not independently verify headcounts. Third, a single filing says little about a company's wider workforce — Roundabout's Burbank notice covers one location.
For workers at the Burbank site, the practical points are the same as in any 60-day notice. The notice period is the time to contact the state's Rapid Response team, file for unemployment benefits when eligible, check health coverage options including COBRA and the marketplace, and review any severance or separation paperwork before signing.
The bottom line
Roundabout Entertainment's 81-worker Burbank closure is a straightforward filing: noticed on October 30, effective December 29, exactly 60 days later, in a batch of California notices that all point at the same year-end window. It adds 81 workers to a December 29 date shared with Danone's 135-worker Chatsworth closure, and it keeps California at the top of a national picture in which the heaviest week is still ahead — the week of November 19 carries 8,412 scheduled workers.
Data source: Layoff Atlas
