Category: Layoffs and Closures

Defense contractor KBR plans to eliminate 758 jobs at Fort Irwin, a sprawling Army training installation in California’s Mojave Desert, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification filed with the state. The cuts represent one of the larger single-site layoffs in San Bernardino County in recent memory and raise pointed questions about the stability…

See’s Candies, the century-old confectioner synonymous with boxed chocolates and holiday gift-giving, has suddenly closed its longtime headquarters and laid off dozens of workers, according to a filing under California’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act. For a beloved candy brand that has operated in California since 1921, the abrupt move raises hard questions…

More than 200 factory workers at a Kansas manufacturing plant were laid off as First Brands Group moved through bankruptcy proceedings, after a proposed sale of the facility did not close. First Brands filed for Chapter 11 protection on September 28, 2025, after federal prosecutors charged former executives Patrick James and Edward James in the…

Lowe’s Companies Inc. is cutting roughly 600 corporate and support positions, a move the retailer says will free up money to invest in store-level workers and frontline operations. The layoffs, announced on February 13, 2026, affect less than 1% of the company’s total workforce but signal a deliberate shift in how the home improvement giant…

Constellation Brands, operating as Mission Bell Winery, has signaled planned job cuts at its Madera, California, facility in 2026 through a required state WARN process, adding to broader layoff concerns in the state’s wine industry. The workforce reduction at the company’s Madera, California, facility follows a required state filing and arrives alongside an open federal…

Goldman Sachs economists have flagged artificial intelligence-driven job displacement as a growing threat to the U.S. labor market, warning that accelerating automation could push unemployment meaningfully higher through 2026. The caution arrives as the official jobless rate already sits at its highest level in months, with 7.4 million Americans out of work as of January…

Ferrara Candy Company, the parent of the Jelly Belly brand, is shutting down corporate operations at its Fairfield, California, headquarters and permanently eliminating 69 jobs, according to a WARN notice and local reporting. The cuts target white-collar roles at the Fairfield campus while manufacturing continues on-site. 69 Corporate Jobs Gone From Fairfield The layoffs were…

A major furniture retailer’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy has set off a rush by shoppers to spend gift cards before they risk becoming worthless. In Pennsylvania, the attorney general is urging anyone holding Value City or American Signature Furniture cards to redeem them quickly, warning that a firm redemption cutoff is already in place. The scramble…

Amazon is cutting thousands of corporate jobs, with human resources among the hardest-hit departments, as the company redirects spending toward artificial intelligence and tries to flatten its management structure. The layoffs, which began in late 2025 and accelerated in January 2026, have already triggered billions of dollars in severance costs and formal job-loss notices across…

Major U.S. employers across logistics, finance, retail, and manufacturing are shedding thousands of jobs in 2026, with official state filings and federal documents revealing the scale of cuts that are already underway or scheduled for the coming months. UPS alone plans to eliminate up to 30,000 positions this year, while companies like Wells Fargo, Lowe’s,…