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# California WARN notices 2026: 1,241 layoffs, 68,459 workers | SpecStream

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# California WARN notices 2026: 1,241 layoffs, 68,459 workers

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[Public data](https://specstream.ai/blog.md) · Nov 10, 2026 · 3 min read

California received 1,241 WARN notices covering 68,459 workers between January 5 and November 4, 2026. Los Angeles County filed 338 of them, more than San Diego, Santa Clara and Alameda counties put together. The single largest notice came from Meta Platforms, Inc. in San Mateo County: 2,212 workers, filed May 22, 2026.

Every notice is on [our California layoff list](https://specstream.ai/data/layoffs/state/california?utm_source=blog&utm_campaign=warn-2026), which holds all 17,298 California notices we have, back to 2008, and the first 200 rows are free. The whole list is $252.98, and new notices come by email each week for $19 a month.

## What the 1,241 notices say

-   **Los Angeles County leads.** 338 notices and 13,453 workers. San Diego County is second on count with 120 notices and 3,996 workers, while Santa Clara County's 111 notices cover 7,509 workers. Alameda County has 85 notices and 5,434 workers, Orange County 82 and 4,828.
-   **345 notices are closures.** 894 are layoffs, and the last 2 are relocations.
-   **Some employers filed again and again.** Sentinel Transportation, LLC filed 24 notices, Blue Shield of California 19 and Meta Platforms, Inc. 11. Blue Diamond Growers, Amazon and Wescom Financial filed 9 each.
-   **April was the busiest month.** 165 notices, against a low of 84 in July.
-   **The median notice is small.** Half of the notices cover 18 workers or fewer.
-   **Fewer notices than last year.** From January to November 4, 2025, California had 1,451 notices and 89,313 workers. From January 5 to November 4, 2026, it has 1,241 and 68,459.

## The ten largest

Employer names are as the state printed them.

| Employer | County | Workers | Notice date | Effective date |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Meta Platforms, Inc. | San Mateo County | 2,212 | 2026-05-22 | 2026-07-22 |
| AEG Management Oakland LLC | Alameda County | 1,605 | 2026-10-29 | 2026-12-31 |
| Covenant Aviation Security, LLC | San Francisco County | 1,279 | 2026-09-28 | 2026-11-30 |
| 24Hr Homecare | Los Angeles County | 875 | 2026-10-01 | 2026-12-17 |
| Del Monte Foods Corporation II Inc - Modesto | Stanislaus County | 765 | 2026-01-30 | 2026-04-07 |
| KBR Services LLC | San Bernardino County | 758 | 2026-03-06 | 2026-05-06 |
| 24Hr Homecare, LLC | Los Angeles County | 738 | 2026-08-31 | 2026-09-15 |
| TeamOne | Riverside County | 725 | 2026-05-18 | 2026-06-13 |
| Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream | Kern County | 715 | 2026-10-19 | 2026-12-19 |
| KBR Services LLC | San Bernardino County | 650 | 2026-05-24 | 2026-08-01 |

24Hr Homecare and KBR Services LLC each appear twice: two separate filings, months apart. Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream marked its Kern County notice as a temporary closure.

## How California publishes its notices

The [California Employment Development Department](https://edd.ca.gov/en/Jobs_and_Training/Layoff_Services_WARN) posts the notices. Its file runs to 17,702 rows across all years, and 404 of them are exact twins we fold into one.

The type cell joins two answers in one phrase, such as "Layoff Permanent" or "Closure Temporary". 34 notices this year read "Layoff Not known at this time", so the employer had not yet said whether the cut is permanent. Every 2026 notice prints a worker count and a county, so county totals cover the whole year.

Several employers file once per building or site. Blue Shield of California has separate rows for Building B and Building C, 3 notices each, on top of its 19 under the plain name. Search by the first word of an employer's name to catch all of its rows.

We read the state's file on November 10, 2026. The newest notice in it is dated November 4, 2026.

All 17,298 California notices, with the county, the employer and both dates, are on the [California WARN list](https://specstream.ai/data/layoffs/state/california?utm_source=blog&utm_campaign=warn-2026).

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