Chick-fil-A – Worthy Integrated Holdings Files 87-Worker Closure Notice in Oxnard, California
A new California WARN filing lists 87 workers affected by a closure in Oxnard, effective December 31, 2026. The employer name on the filing is "Chick-fil-A – Worthy Integrated Holdings," and the notice was dated November 2, 2026, making it the newest official California filing in the Layoff Atlas registry at the time of writing.
The filing was reported through California's Employment Development Department (EDD), the state's official WARN source. It is recorded as a closure, not a temporary layoff or a partial layoff, which means the notice describes a site closing rather than a temporary shutdown.
The filing at a glance
- Employer as listed: Chick-fil-A – Worthy Integrated Holdings
- Location: Oxnard, California
- Workers affected: 87
- Event type: closure
- Notice date: November 2, 2026
- Effective date: December 31, 2026
- Source: California EDD, via Layoff Atlas
One naming caution matters here. The registry preserves the exact employer name from the filing, and grouped company names do not by themselves establish ownership. Readers should not assume from the filing name alone which company operates the site or employs the affected workers; the filing says only that this employer name, in Oxnard, reported 87 workers affected by a closure.
A 59-day notice period
From November 2 to December 31 is 59 days. That is one day short of the 60-day advance notice period in the federal WARN Act for covered employers. The filing itself does not explain the timing, and a single registry entry cannot settle whether any exception applied, whether the employer gave additional notice outside the filing, or whether the dates were recorded exactly as submitted.
What can be said plainly is this: the notice period on paper is 59 days, and workers, advisers, and reporters reading the filing should check the underlying state record before drawing conclusions about compliance. California also has its own mini-WARN law, Cal-WARN, which generally requires 60 days' notice as well, but again, the registry entry alone does not answer the legal question.
December 31 is a crowded effective date
The Oxnard closure lands on December 31, 2026, one of the busiest effective dates on the current calendar. Other California filings effective the same day include AEG Management Oakland, with 1,605 workers, and Comcast in Livermore, with 82 workers. Nationally, the week-by-week picture shows the same end-of-year concentration: the week starting November 25 carries 9,858 reported workers, the heaviest upcoming week, followed by quieter weeks in early December.
That clustering is worth noting because it affects how a single filing reads. An 87-worker closure is small next to a 1,605-worker filing, but it is still 87 people whose jobs are scheduled to end on the same day, in the same city, at the same time as many others across the state. Year-end effective dates are common in WARN data, partly because closures and restructurings are often scheduled around the turn of the year.
California in the national picture
California remains the largest state in the current 90-day WARN window, with 21,216 reported workers, ahead of Washington at 17,320. The national window totals 685 notices and 65,371 reported workers, with 26 counts unavailable, updated November 4, 2026. Those window figures are not the same as California's full archive, which holds 17,657 imported notices reporting 1,459,656 workers across all years.
For 2026 alone, California's archive shows 1,229 notices and 67,829 reported workers. Over the last 365 days, the archive contains 1,325 eligible official filings reporting 73,149 workers, and 147 notices carry future effective dates. The Oxnard filing is one of those future-dated notices: filed in November, effective at the end of December.
What this filing does and does not show
WARN filings are reported plans, not confirmed job losses. A closure notice can be amended, delayed, or in some cases withdrawn, and the number of workers ultimately affected can differ from the number first reported. The registry also combines official records with labeled secondary reports, and coverage varies by state, so missing records are not the same as zero layoffs.
For workers at the Oxnard site, the practical points are the dates and the type: a closure, effective December 31, 2026, with notice dated November 2. Anyone affected should confirm the details with the employer and the California EDD, check eligibility for unemployment benefits and any state rapid-response services, and keep a copy of the notice itself, since the registry entry is a summary, not the original document.
For everyone else, the filing is a small but current data point: a new closure notice, filed this week, in a state that already accounts for the largest share of reported WARN workers in the country.
Data source: Layoff Atlas
