The Children's Place Files Two WARN Notices in Two States: 1,325 Workers

The Children's Place, the children's clothing retailer, has filed two separate WARN notices covering 1,325 workers in two states. One covers 732 workers in New Jersey, effective February 4, 2027. The other covers 593 workers at a distribution center in Fort Payne, Alabama, effective January 5, 2027.

These are reported plans, not confirmed job losses. A WARN notice is an advance filing with a state labor agency about a qualifying mass layoff or plant closure. The figures below describe what was filed, not how many people will ultimately lose their jobs.

Two filings, one employer

The two notices arrived through different channels and carry different amounts of detail.

The Alabama filing is the more complete record. Children's Place Distribution in Fort Payne reported 593 workers affected, with a notice date of November 6, 2026 and an effective date of January 5, 2027. That is exactly 60 days of notice — the federal WARN floor.

The New Jersey filing is thinner. The Children's Place reported 732 workers affected, effective February 4, 2027, but the record carries no locality and no notice date — it arrived as a recently imported record, and those fields were unavailable. The registry lists it as a New Jersey filing, but it cannot say where in the state the affected workers are, or when the notice was filed.

Together, the two filings total 1,325 workers. The New Jersey filing is the larger of the two at 732, and the Alabama filing the smaller at 593. They are separate notices in separate states, filed under the same employer name — not a single event, and not proof of a single company-wide decision. What they show is that the same retailer reported large cuts in two states within the same filing window.

What 1,325 workers means in each state

In Alabama, the 593-worker filing is a large one. The state's 2026 archive holds 32 notices reporting 3,310 workers, so this single filing accounts for about 18 percent of everything Alabama has reported this year. The state's full archive holds 1,067 notices reporting 182,204 workers.

In New Jersey, the 732-worker filing is big in a different way. The state's 2026 archive holds 142 notices reporting 18,011 workers, so the filing is about 4 percent of the year's reported total — a smaller share, but still one of the largest single filings in the state this year. More striking is its place in 2027: New Jersey already has 11 notices reporting 1,518 workers for next year, and this one filing accounts for nearly half of that total. New Jersey has 26 notices with future effective dates.

The contrast matters. In Alabama, one filing moves the whole year's numbers. In New Jersey, the same filing is a large entry in a much busier register — but it dominates the early-2027 calendar.

The national picture

Nationally, the registry counted 654 notices covering 60,606 reported workers in the 90-day window, with 30 worker counts unavailable, updated November 11, 2026. California leads the state ranking at 20,789 reported workers, followed by Washington at 17,387. Together, those two states hold about 63 percent of all reported workers in the window. Maryland is third at 2,667, Virginia fourth at 2,556, and Texas fifth at 2,419.

The weeks ahead are uneven. The week starting November 12 carries 7,578 reported workers, and the week of November 19 is the heaviest on the calendar at 8,412. The week of November 26 carries 6,032. Then the calendar drops sharply: the weeks of December 3 and December 10 carry 1,919 and 1,959 workers, before rising to 5,347 for the week of December 17.

Neither Children's Place filing falls in those six weeks. Both take effect in January and February 2027, beyond the current weekly calendar.

How to read these numbers

Three cautions apply to this cluster.

First, the New Jersey filing's missing fields are a data gap, not a detail. Without a locality or a notice date, the registry cannot say where those 732 workers are or how much notice they received. The Alabama filing, with its exact 60-day notice period, is the better-documented of the two.

Second, adding the two filings together is useful, but only up to a point. The combined 1,325 is the total number of workers the employer reported across two states. It is not a single layoff event, and the two filings have different effective dates a month apart. Treat the cluster as two related filings, not one decision.

Third, the registry covers 51 jurisdictions, and 48 have imported records. Coverage and reporting rules vary by state, and a filing that never reached a connected source does not appear at all. Missing coverage is not zero layoffs — and these two filings are only the ones the registry could see.

The bottom line

The Children's Place reported 1,325 workers across two WARN filings — 732 in New Jersey, effective February 4, 2027, and 593 in Fort Payne, Alabama, effective January 5, 2027. The Alabama filing gave exactly 60 days' notice. The New Jersey filing gave no usable notice date at all. Both land in early 2027, well past the heaviest weeks on the current calendar, and both are reported plans — not confirmed job losses.

Data source: Layoff Atlas