Texas Layoffs November 2026: WARN Numbers Explained

Texas is the fourth-largest state in the current national WARN picture, with 2,750 reported workers in the 90-day window behind California (21,514), Washington (17,411), and Illinois (3,548). Nationally, the registry holds 705 notices covering 65,089 reported workers, with 31 worker counts unavailable. Texas accounts for about 4 percent of that national worker total — a modest share for a state of its size, and a sign that 2026 has been a comparatively quiet year for large Texas layoff filings.

These are reported plans, not confirmed job losses. A WARN notice records what an employer says it intends to do, and the figures below come from the filings themselves.

Texas in 2026: 102 notices, 17,056 workers

So far in 2026, Texas has 102 imported WARN notices reporting 17,056 workers — an average of about 167 workers per filing. That is well below the pace of recent years. In 2025, Texas recorded 288 notices and 26,607 workers; in 2024, 217 notices and 27,375 workers; in 2023, 223 notices and 23,898 workers. The outlier remains 2020, when the pandemic produced 1,206 Texas notices covering 90,990 workers — more than five times the 2026 worker total in a single year.

The full Texas archive holds 2,394 non-cancelled notices reporting 221,276 workers. Four notices have unavailable worker counts, so the true totals are slightly higher than the reported figures.

The largest 2026 filings

The largest filing on the state's recent list is Conifer Health Solutions in Dallas: 1,037 workers, noticed September 8, 2026, with an effective date of November 2. It is the only Texas filing this year above 1,000 workers, and it alone accounts for about 6 percent of the state's entire 2026 worker total.

The next-largest recent filings are Texas Family Initiative in Dallas (307 workers, effective October 31), 4XH Logistics in San Antonio (230 workers, effective November 6), and Truist Bank in Arlington (205 workers, effective November 30). Smaller but notable filings include 80 Acres Farms in San Antonio (166 workers, effective August 3), Postal Center International in San Antonio (164 workers, effective August 13), Louisiana-Pacific in Jasper (150 workers, effective October 2), and Essendant in Irving (136 workers, effective October 3).

The pattern is geographically spread: Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and smaller cities like Jasper, Pampa, and Temple all appear. No single metro area or industry dominates the 2026 list — health care administration, logistics, banking, food, and manufacturing are all represented.

What is still ahead

Texas has only three future effective dates left on the calendar. The largest is the Truist Bank filing in Arlington: 205 workers, effective November 30, 2026. CTI Foods Bean in Saginaw follows with 66 workers effective November 9. After that, the Texas calendar is effectively empty — a sharp contrast with the national picture, where the week of November 15 alone carries 7,887 scheduled workers, the heaviest week on the calendar, followed by 6,614 in the week of November 22 and 6,156 in the week of November 29.

That quiet forward calendar fits the rest of the Texas data: a year of filings spread across the spring and summer, then tapering off. The most recent official notice date in the Texas archive is June 23, 2026.

The official-filing gap

That June 23 date deserves attention. In the last 365 days, the Texas archive contains 87 eligible official filings reporting 16,615 workers — but the newest official notice is from June 23, 2026, more than four months ago. Every filing on the state's recent list since then is a secondary record attributed to the WARN Feed, not a direct government filing.

The archive as a whole is overwhelmingly official: 2,361 direct government records against 33 attributed secondary records. But the recent flow is not. Texas is one of the states where the direct feed has gone quiet in the second half of 2026, and the registry is keeping the picture current through secondary records instead. That matters for how much weight to put on the newest rows: they are attributed reports of filings, not the filings themselves, and the details should be read with that in mind.

It also means Texas could look quieter than it is. Missing source coverage is not zero layoffs. If the direct feed resumes, the 2026 totals may be revised upward.

How to read Texas numbers

Texas has no state mini-WARN law, so the federal WARN Act is the only notice rule that applies: employers with 100 or more full-time workers must give 60 days' notice of a plant closing or a mass layoff meeting the federal thresholds. Smaller layoffs, and layoffs at smaller employers, never produce a WARN notice at all — which is one reason the registry's totals are a floor, not a census.

Three cautions apply to every number in this article. First, these are reported plans, not confirmed job losses: filings can be postponed, reduced, or cancelled. Second, a single employer can appear under several names. Third, the 2026 totals are still moving — the year is not over, and late-arriving records can change both the notice count and the worker total.

For now, the Texas story of 2026 is a quiet one: 102 notices, 17,056 workers, one filing above a thousand, and a nearly empty calendar for the rest of the year. Whether that quiet holds depends on whether the official feed starts publishing again.

Data source: Layoff Atlas