Conifer Health Solutions' 1,037-Worker Dallas Layoff: Texas's Largest WARN Filing of 2026
Conifer Health Solutions filed the largest WARN notice in Texas this year: 1,037 workers in Dallas, effective November 2, 2026. No other Texas filing in 2026 comes close. The next largest, Texas Family Initiative's 307-worker Dallas filing, is less than a third of its size.
The effective date has already passed. The workers named in the filing were due to be affected on November 2, ten days ago. That makes this a look-back at the year's biggest Texas layoff event, not a warning about one still to come.
These are reported plans, not confirmed job losses. WARN notices describe what an employer says it intends to do. The registry records the filing; it does not track how many of the listed workers were ultimately let go.
The filing in detail
- Employer: Conifer's Health Solutions (listed in the registry as "Conifer's Health Solutions")
- Location: Dallas, Texas
- Workers affected: 1,037
- Notice date: September 8, 2026
- Effective date: November 2, 2026
- Notice period: 55 days
- Event type: not stated in the record
- Source: WARN Feed, a secondary record — not a filing from the Texas official feed
Conifer Health Solutions is a health-care revenue-cycle company, part of Tenet Healthcare, that handles billing and related services for hospitals and health systems. The filing gives no address, no division, and no event type, so it is not possible to say from the record alone which Dallas site or operation the 1,037 workers belonged to.
The 1,037 workers are about 6 percent of all workers named in Texas WARN notices in 2026. Texas has recorded 102 notices covering 17,056 workers this year, so a single filing accounts for roughly one in every sixteen of those workers.
The 55-day notice question
The federal WARN Act generally requires 60 days' written notice before a mass layoff or plant closing affecting 100 or more full-time workers. The gap between this filing's reported notice date, September 8, and its effective date, November 2, is 55 days — five days short of that standard.
That shortfall does not by itself prove a violation. The law has exceptions for unforeseeable business circumstances, faltering companies seeking capital, and natural disasters, and an employer that gives short notice must be able to show the exception applies. Workers who receive less than 60 days' notice without a valid exception can be owed back pay and benefits for each day of the shortfall, up to 60 days.
There is also a data caution here. This record comes from the WARN Feed, a secondary source, not from the Texas Workforce Commission's official feed. Texas's official feed has been quiet since June 23, 2026 — its newest official notice date — so recent Texas filings in the registry are all secondary records. The notice date on a secondary record can reflect when the filing was reported rather than when the employer sent it, which means the 55-day figure is the gap in the record as published, not necessarily the gap the workers experienced.
Texas in 2026
Texas's 2026 WARN picture is dominated by a handful of large filings. After Conifer's 1,037, the largest are Texas Family Initiative with 307 workers in Dallas, effective October 31; 4XH Logistics with 230 in San Antonio, effective November 6; and Truist Bank with 205 in Arlington, effective November 30.
The year's totals put 2026 well below the recent peak. Texas recorded 288 notices covering 26,607 workers in 2025, and 217 notices covering 27,375 workers in 2024. The 2020 pandemic year remains the outlier: 1,206 notices and 90,990 workers. The full archive holds 2,394 notices and 221,276 workers.
Only two future effective dates remain on the Texas books. The larger is Truist Bank's 205-worker Arlington filing, effective November 30. With the Conifer filing already effective, the state's near-term calendar is nearly empty — a sharp contrast with the national picture, where more than 31,000 workers are scheduled across the next six weeks.
Texas has no state mini-WARN law, so the federal WARN Act is the only notice statute that applies. The federal thresholds — generally 100 or more full-time workers, 60 days' notice — are the rules Texas workers and employers operate under.
The national picture
Nationally, the registry's 90-day window holds 654 notices covering 60,606 reported workers, with 30 notices carrying no worker count. The data was last updated November 11, 2026.
California and Washington continue to dominate: 20,789 and 17,387 workers respectively, about 63 percent of the national total between them. Maryland (2,667), Virginia (2,556), and Texas (2,419) round out the top five. Texas ranks fifth nationally by reported workers in the current window.
The coming weeks are uneven. The week of November 19 is the heaviest on the calendar, with 8,412 workers scheduled, followed by the week of November 26 with 6,032. December opens quietly: 1,919 workers in the week of December 3 and 1,959 in the week of December 10, before the calendar picks back up to 5,347 in the week of December 17.
What it means for the workers
For the 1,037 Dallas workers, the notice period is over and the effective date has passed. The practical questions now are the ones that follow any large layoff: unemployment benefits, which in Texas are claimed through the Texas Workforce Commission; health coverage, including COBRA continuation or a marketplace plan under the special enrollment period that follows a job loss; and any severance or outplacement support the employer offered.
Workers who believe they received less than the notice the law requires can raise it with the Texas Workforce Commission or consult an employment lawyer. Back-pay claims under WARN must generally be brought within three years, and they are individual claims — there is no government agency that enforces WARN on workers' behalf.
The Conifer filing is also a reminder of how much of the Texas picture now depends on secondary records. With the official feed quiet since June, the registry's Texas numbers for the second half of 2026 come from attributed secondary reports. That does not make them unreliable, but it means the dates and counts carry more uncertainty than a direct government filing — and for a filing as large as this one, that uncertainty matters.
Data source: Layoff Atlas.
