Mississippi's WARN record for 2026 is small in count and heavy in closures. The state's imported archive lists 14 notices reporting 2,149 workers so far this year, and 10 of the 14 are plant closures rather than layoffs. These are reported plans, not confirmed job losses — what employers told the state, not how many people ultimately lost work.

Nationally, Layoff Atlas currently shows 667 notices covering 63,168 reported workers in the 90-day window, with 30 filings missing a worker count. Mississippi does not rank among the five heaviest states — California leads with 20,982 reported workers, followed by Washington at 17,411 — but the state's own pattern still matters.

The 2026 filings: three closures carry half the total

Three filings account for more than half of Mississippi's 2026 reported workers. Stanley Black & Decker reported 441 workers at a Verona closure, noticed February 20. Greenwood Leflore Hospital reported 425 workers at a Greenwood closure, noticed April 14 and effective June 15. Hood Industries reported 259 workers at a Wiggins closure, noticed July 6 and effective September 5. Together, those three add up to 1,125 of the year's 2,149 reported workers — about 52 percent.

The rest are smaller but follow the same shape: GXO Logistics, 220 workers at a Southaven closure; NIKE Retail Services, 193 in a Byhalia layoff; Regency Hospital, 102 at a Meridian closure; New Way Trucks, 86 in a Booneville layoff; Morrison Healthcare, 86 at a Jackson closure; Leggett & Platt Flooring Products, 86 at a Houston closure; Amplify Cell Technologies, 73 in a Byhalia layoff; Laboratory Corporation of America, 60 at a Southaven closure; Aramark Services, 59 at a Greenwood closure; Wheeler Fleet Solutions, 52 at an Olive Branch closure; and Birdsong Peanuts, 7 in an Aberdeen layoff.

The filings spread across the state — Verona, Greenwood, Wiggins, Southaven, Byhalia, Meridian, Booneville, Jackson, Houston, Olive Branch, Aberdeen — with no single city dominating. Manufacturing, logistics, and health care account for most of the names on the list.

Fewer filings, larger ones

Mississippi filed 30 notices in 2025 reporting 2,678 workers, and 23 notices in 2024 reporting 2,571. The 2026 count so far — 14 notices, 2,149 workers — is on pace for fewer filings than either year but a similar worker total. The average filing in 2026 reports about 154 workers, against about 89 per filing in 2025. Fewer WARN events, then — but bigger ones, driven by the three large closures.

The archive's recent peak is 2022: 50 notices, 7,042 workers; 2023 had 43 notices and 4,837. The full archive holds 222 non-cancelled notices reporting 25,072 workers — 101 direct government records and 121 attributed secondary reports — and seven notices have no worker count, so the totals understate the picture by an unknown amount.

Where the record stops

Two limits matter for anyone reading these numbers. First, the official record has gone quiet. In the last 365 days, the archive holds 13 eligible official filings reporting 2,155 workers, and the newest official notice is dated July 21, 2026 — the Morrison Healthcare filing in Jackson. That is nearly four months ago. No Mississippi notice in the imported record has a future effective date. A quiet feed can mean fewer layoffs, a reporting lag, or a coverage gap; the data alone cannot say which — and it is not evidence of zero layoffs since July.

Second, the calendar-year and 365-day totals differ slightly — 14 notices and 2,149 workers in 2026, against 13 official filings and 2,155 workers in the last 365 days — because the two windows count different records. The calendar-year figure includes two secondary-source reports, New Way Trucks and Birdsong Peanuts, while the 365-day official figure includes a December 2025 filing, Westlake Chemical's 99-worker Aberdeen closure. The numbers reconcile once you know which records each window counts.

Notice timing: mostly 60 days, with exceptions

Federal WARN law generally requires covered employers to give 60 days' notice before a mass layoff or closure. Most of Mississippi's dated 2026 filings meet or clear that bar: Hood Industries gave 61 days (July 6 to September 5), Greenwood Leflore Hospital 62 (April 14 to June 15), Amplify Cell Technologies exactly 60 (March 31 to May 30), Morrison Healthcare 71 (July 21 to September 30), and Laboratory Corporation of America 84 (March 17 to June 9). A few did not. GXO Logistics gave 25 days (January 6 to January 31), Leggett & Platt gave 31 (May 11 to June 11), and Regency Hospital's notice and effective date are the same day, February 11.

The record does not explain the short ones: they can reflect an employer not covered by WARN, or one of the law's exceptions, such as unforeseeable business circumstances — but the filings do not say. What the pattern does show is that the 60-day standard is the norm in Mississippi's 2026 record, not the exception.

What to watch

With no future effective dates and no official notice since July 21, the next signal is whether the state's feed resumes publishing — and whether new notices continue the 2026 pattern of a few large closures or return to 2022–2023 filing counts. Until then, the honest summary is narrow: 14 notices, 2,149 reported workers, closures doing most of the damage, and a feed silent for months. These are reported plans, not confirmed job losses.

Data source: Layoff Atlas