Tennessee WARN notices 2026: 49 layoffs, 6,603 workers so far

Tennessee logged 49 WARN notices for 6,603 workers between January 13 and October 20, 2026. These are large notices: the median covers 114 workers. Shelby County holds 9 of them and 1,676 workers, including the biggest of the year, NIKE Retail Services, Inc. with 583 workers, filed January 27.

Our Tennessee layoff list has all 1,052 Tennessee notices we hold, the oldest from 2012. You can take the first 200 rows free. The whole list is $52.60, and the weekly email of new rows is $19 a month.

What the 49 notices say

• Shelby County comes first. 9 notices and 1,676 workers. Three of the ten largest are there: NIKE Retail Services, JBS USA Food Company and GXO.
• Hamilton County is second. Hamilton County has 5 notices for 852 workers, among them Pilgrim's Pride Corporation at 315 and T-Mobile USA, Inc. at 200.
• Williamson, Davidson and Knox come next. Williamson County has 4 notices for 404 workers. Davidson County has 3 for 440, and Knox County 3 for 320.
• Half the notices cover 114 workers or more. That is the median.
• March and June were the busiest months, with 8 notices each. September had 1.
• Each notice comes from a different employer. Nobody filed twice this year.
• More notices, fewer workers than 2025. Up to October 20, 2025, Tennessee had 40 notices for 6,986 workers. Up to October 20, 2026, it has 49 for 6,603.

The ten largest

Employer	County	Workers	Notice date	Effective date
NIKE Retail Services, Inc.	Shelby	583	Jan 27
First Brands Group, LLC	Lincoln	333	Mar 4
Carlex	Monroe	325	Jul 13
Pilgrim's Pride Corporation	Hamilton	315	Jun 16
TikTok USDS JV	Davidson	250	Aug 5
Adient	McMinn	210	Apr 21
DLH Solutions	Rutherford	209	Jan 30	Mar 31
JBS USA Food Company	Shelby	208	Jun 17
T-Mobile USA, Inc.	Hamilton	200	Apr 16
GXO	Shelby	185	Feb 19	Apr 3

Only two of the ten carry an effective date in the state's report. The others are left blank there and here.

How Tennessee publishes its notices

The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development publishes WARN notices as reports in its publications section, with the county for each notice and no city. The type field is blank for every 2026 notice, so the state does not say which are closures.

The report has gaps: 453 of its rows carry no notice date we can read, so they sit in the all-years list but in no yearly count. Every 2026 notice has a date, a county and a worker count. Our last read of the state's report was November 4, 2026, and its newest notice then was dated October 20.

The Tennessee page has every notice, county by county, from 2012 to this October.