Pennsylvania Layoffs November 2026: WARN Numbers Explained

Pennsylvania has 80 WARN notices reporting 12,830 workers so far in 2026 — well behind California (21,514) and Washington (17,411), the two giants of the current national data. But the Pennsylvania numbers carry a quirk: the state's official feed has not delivered a new filing in over a year, so nearly everything recent arrives through secondary records.

The figures come from Layoff Atlas, which tracks WARN notices — advance notifications of qualifying mass layoffs and plant closures filed with state labor agencies. These are reported plans, not confirmed job losses, and coverage varies by state.

The headline numbers

Pennsylvania's full imported archive holds 1,903 non-cancelled notices reporting 257,171 workers. In 2026, the registry counts 80 notices and 12,830 reported workers — about 160 per filing — and 11 notices have future effective dates.

For context, 2025 produced 97 notices and 14,464 workers, and 2024 produced 84 notices and 10,178 workers, so 2026 sits between the two with about two months of filings still to land. The pandemic year remains the outlier: 2020 saw 428 notices and 67,171 workers, more than five times the 2026 total so far.

Nationally, the current 90-day window holds 694 notices covering 64,044 reported workers. The top five states are California (21,514), Washington (17,411), Illinois (3,432), Texas (2,750), and Maryland (2,475). Pennsylvania is not in that top five, because its recent filings are spread across many smaller notices rather than a few very large ones.

The largest 2026 filings

Eight filings account for 1,426 of the year's 12,830 workers — about 11 percent. The largest is Comcast Technology Center in Philadelphia, 634 workers effective December 31, 2026, followed by Eos Energy Storage in East Pittsburgh, 251 workers effective October 26, and Pep Boys' Bala Cynwyd headquarters, 169 workers effective December 31.

The rest: Ask Foods in Palmyra, 96 workers effective December 1, 2026; Kenco Logistic Services in Myerstown, 81 workers effective March 1, 2027 — the only 2027 date in the archive so far; the Pavilion at Bradford, 80 workers effective December 1; Powered by FTGU in Lititz, 67 workers effective December 14; and Republic Amusements in Camp Hill, 48 workers effective December 20.

December 31 is the biggest single effective date in the state: Comcast's 634 plus Pep Boys' 169 add up to 803 workers on one day. December 1 is next, with Ask Foods and the Pavilion combining for 176. None are confirmed job losses yet — they are reported plans, and some may change.

The official-filing gap

The most important thing to know about these numbers is how they are sourced. The full archive contains 247 direct government records and 1,656 attributed secondary records — and in the last 365 days, zero eligible official filings, with the newest official notice dated March 18, 2025.

That does not mean nothing has been filed since March 2025. It means the official feed has stopped syncing, so recent notices reach the public record secondhand, through news reports, company statements, and other attributed records. The 80 notices counted for 2026 are real filings, but the registry cannot guarantee it has caught every one. Eighty notices in the archive carry no worker count at all, so 12,830 is a floor, not a complete count.

That matters for comparisons: a state with a live feed will look more active than one whose feed has stalled, even if the underlying layoff activity is similar. Pennsylvania's 2026 total is the visible part of the picture, not the whole of it.

Pennsylvania in the national picture

The six weeks ahead nationally total 31,970 scheduled workers, with November accounting for about 78 percent of the total. The weeks run 6,473 (November 9), 6,202 (November 16), 6,207 (November 23), 5,916 (November 30), just 898 (December 7), and 6,274 (December 14).

Pennsylvania's contribution is modest but concentrated in December: the December 31 filings alone — Comcast and Pep Boys — are larger than most states' entire weekly totals. Workers in Philadelphia and Montgomery County should treat December 31 as a real date: both filings are already on the public record, and the 60-day notice clock has long since run.

The longer view: annual totals have fallen a long way from the 2020 peak, and even 2019 — 109 notices, 16,456 workers — produced more reported layoffs than 2026 has so far. The state is not experiencing a layoff wave by historical standards, just a steady drumbeat of mid-size filings in the 50-to-250 range, with one very large outlier in Philadelphia.

How to read Pennsylvania's numbers

Three cautions apply: these are reported plans, not confirmed job losses, and employers sometimes delay, shrink, or cancel a filing; the totals exclude the 80 notices with unavailable counts, so the true number is higher than 12,830; and the stalled official feed means the 2026 count depends on secondary reporting, which can lag and miss filings.

For workers named in a filing, the steps are the same regardless of the numbers: confirm the filing with the employer or the state rapid response team, check unemployment eligibility early, and review health coverage before the effective date. The WARN notice is a 60-day head start — it is worth using all of it.

Data source: Layoff Atlas