The Week of November 13: 8,744 Workers Scheduled for Layoffs, the Heaviest Upcoming Week
The heaviest scheduled layoff week of the fall is the week of November 13, 2026. Current WARN notice data shows 8,744 reported workers with effective dates landing that week — 224 more than the week of October 30, the next-heaviest, at 8,520.
These are reported plans, not confirmed job losses. WARN filings are advance notices employers file with state labor agencies before qualifying mass layoffs or plant closures; the figures below describe what employers reported, and coverage varies by state.
The week-by-week picture
Here is the tracker's upcoming-weeks chart, measured by reported workers by effective date:
- Week of Oct 23 (this week): 1,393 workers
- Week of Oct 30: 8,520 workers
- Week of Nov 6: 3,302 workers
- Week of Nov 13: 8,744 workers — the heaviest on the calendar
- Week of Nov 20: 7,181 workers
- Week of Nov 27: 5,679 workers (Thanksgiving week)
The six weeks together total 34,819 workers, which is more than half — about 53% — of the 65,791 reported workers in the current 90-day notice window. November 13 alone accounts for roughly one quarter of that six-week total.
At the top of the calendar
November 13 sits at the top of the upcoming-weeks chart at 8,744 workers — 224 ahead of the week of October 30 at 8,520. That makes it the heaviest scheduled layoff week on the fall calendar.
What has not changed is the shape of the fall: two heavy weeks — October 30 and November 13 — separated by a comparatively light week (November 6 at 3,302), followed by another heavy stretch into the Thanksgiving week.
Where the workers are
Nationally, the registry currently holds 699 notices covering 65,791 reported workers over the 90-day window, with 33 notices reporting no worker count. The top five states by reported workers:
- Washington — 16,938 workers
- California — 14,224 workers
- Illinois — 4,626 workers
- Texas — 3,652 workers
- Ohio — 3,180 workers
Washington and California alone account for nearly half of all reported workers in the window, a pattern that has held for weeks.
How to read these numbers
An effective date is when separations are scheduled to begin — not when the notice was filed, and not necessarily when every affected worker's last day falls. A single week can look heavy because of one or two large filings, or because many smaller filings share the same effective week. Both patterns occur.
Also keep in mind what the data does not show. WARN coverage is not a census of layoffs: federal law only requires notices for qualifying mass layoffs and plant closures at larger employers, some states have stricter "mini-WARN" rules and some do not, and 3 of the 51 jurisdictions in the registry still have no imported records at all. Missing coverage is not zero layoffs.
What to watch
The week of November 13 is about three weeks out. Between now and then, employers can still file new notices — or revise existing ones — so the 8,744 figure will move.
If you are watching a specific employer or region, the state pages on the tracker break these national totals down by jurisdiction, and each filing lists its notice date alongside its effective date so you can see how far ahead the notice was filed.
Data source: Layoff Atlas
