UBS Files 39-Worker WARN Notice for Weehawken, New Jersey, Effective February 2, 2027

UBS has filed a WARN notice covering 39 workers at its Weehawken, New Jersey location, with the layoffs effective February 2, 2027. The record was recently imported into the Layoff Atlas registry with no notice date attached, which means the public record shows when the job cuts take effect but not when workers were told.

It is a small filing by the standards of this year's WARN data, but it is one of the earliest 2027 layoffs on New Jersey's calendar, arriving alongside a cluster of other employers scheduling cuts for the first weeks of next year.

What the filing says

The registry record for the filing is short, because the filing itself is short on detail:

• Employer: UBS
• Location: Weehawken, New Jersey (Hudson County)
• Workers affected: 39
• Effective date: February 2, 2027, a Tuesday
• Notice date: unavailable — the record carries no published notice date
• Event type: layoff, as listed in the registry

That is all the public record currently shows: no worksite address beyond the town, no breakdown by job title, and no stated reason for the cuts. These are reported plans, not confirmed job losses: a WARN notice records what an employer says it intends to do, and plans can still change before the effective date.

The missing notice date matters

The gap in this record is the notice date. The federal WARN Act generally requires covered employers to give 60 days' written notice before a mass layoff or plant closing, and New Jersey's own mini-WARN law goes further, requiring 90 days' notice for covered employers. Without a published notice date, neither standard can be checked against this filing from the public record alone.

That is not unusual for recently imported records: notice dates are sometimes published later, or the source document does not carry one. The practical consequence is narrower: workers and researchers reading this filing know the effective date, but cannot confirm from the registry how much warning was given. If the notice date appears in a later update, the notice period can be calculated then.

New Jersey's 2027 calendar is filling in

UBS is one of 11 New Jersey WARN notices already carrying 2027 effective dates, covering 1,518 reported workers in total. The other large 2027 filings in the state are all larger than this one:

• The Children's Place, 732 workers, effective February 4, 2027
• Comcast, 119 workers, effective January 27, 2027
• AT&T, 50 workers, effective January 31, 2027

Together with UBS's 39, those four filings account for 940 of the 1,518 workers currently scheduled in New Jersey for 2027 — about 62 percent. The remaining seven 2027 notices make up the other 578 workers.

The timing is also notable. All four land within nine days: Comcast on January 27, AT&T on January 31, UBS on February 2, and The Children's Place on February 4. That is not a single event — four different employers, four different records — but it means the last week of January and the first week of February will be a concentrated stretch for New Jersey's layoff calendar.

New Jersey in 2026

For the year so far, New Jersey has 142 WARN notices reporting 18,011 workers in 2026, out of an archive of 2,348 non-cancelled imported notices covering 377,051 workers. Eighteen notices in the archive have unavailable worker counts, so the worker totals exclude those records entirely.

The state has 26 notices with future effective dates, so the calendar extends well past the end of 2026. The 2027 bucket — 11 notices, 1,518 workers — is the early edge of that forward calendar, and it will grow as more notices are filed and imported.

The national picture

Nationally, the registry's 90-day window holds 665 notices covering 64,336 reported workers, with 30 counts unavailable. California (20,862) and Washington (17,387) together account for about 59 percent of the national total. Illinois (3,432), Maryland (2,667), and Virginia (2,556) round out the top five states.

The coming weeks are uneven: the week of November 25 carries the heaviest load at 9,858 workers, followed by November 11 at 6,146 and November 18 at 5,939. December 2 and December 9 are much lighter, at 1,990 and 1,746 workers, before the calendar picks back up to 5,491 in the week of December 16. UBS's February 2 effective date sits well beyond that six-week window, in the part of the calendar that is only beginning to take shape.

What comes next for the affected workers

For the 39 workers in Weehawken, the practical questions are the same as after any WARN filing. New Jersey's mini-WARN law requires covered employers to give 90 days' notice and, in most cases, pay severance of one week per year of service. Workers can check whether the notice they received matches those requirements, and New Jersey's Rapid Response services offer free help with unemployment claims, job search, and retraining while the notice period runs.

The filing is small, but it shows how the registry works: the headline numbers — 665 notices, 64,336 workers — are built from hundreds of individual records like this one, each with its own gaps. A missing notice date does not make a filing unimportant; it makes the record incomplete, and incomplete records are worth reading carefully rather than rounding off.

Data source: Layoff Atlas