Get told the day one of your companies files a layoff notice

US employers must file a WARN Act notice with the state before a mass layoff. Those notices are public, but they land on 39 different state portals in 39 different formats, on no schedule. WARN Watch runs your list of employers — and whole states if you want them — against every notice we collect, every day, for a year. Matches appear on your own alert page and RSS feed within a refresh cycle of us seeing them.

How it works

1. You pay once and type the employers you want watched (comma separated), plus any two-letter state codes, right at checkout.
2. We check them daily. Our pipeline scrapes 39 state labor-department portals, normalizes every notice into one schema, and matches your terms against the same-day build — on the employer name as filed, on our canonical employer name and on the trade name, so "general motors" also catches "General Motors, LLC -- Lansing Region" and store-number variants.
3. Matches land on your page, your feed and — if you want — your channel. An unlisted alert page (address derived locally in your browser from your purchase email and a page key you choose at checkout in the box labelled “Page key” — not a password, we store it readable so we can resend your link, so never reuse a real one; we never publish the email, and the email alone does not open it), an RSS feed you can point any reader at, and an optional Slack, Discord or Microsoft Teams webhook: paste an incoming-webhook URL at checkout and every match is posted to that channel on the refresh that finds it. The URL is stored privately, never published; the alert page only shows whether the last delivery worked. Find your page any time at https://approjects-warn-act-notices.static.hf.space/alerts/.

What you get, exactly

• Up to 25 employer terms, changeable by replying to your receipt.
• Whole-state watches — every new notice in the states you name.
• All 39 states we cover: AK, AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, ME, MI, MS, MT, NC, NE, NJ, NM, NY, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, WA, WI, WV.
• Per match: employer as filed, our canonical employer, location, employees affected, notice date, effective date, notice type, and the day we first saw it.
• 365 days of daily checks from the day you buy. No subscription, nothing to cancel.

Honest limits — please read before paying

• No built-in email yet. Alerts are a page, an RSS feed and an optional Slack/Discord/Teams webhook message. Want them in your inbox today? Your feed is a private, unguessable URL, so pasting it into a free RSS-to-email service (Blogtrottr, Feedrabbit) or Outlook’s RSS folder takes about a minute and no code. Native email is in progress and buyers get it at no extra cost when it ships. If you would rather buy email outright, Layoff Lookout (17 states) sends it and starts at $2/mo.
• 39 states, not 50. The states we do not cover are listed on the dataset page; a state is added the day it publishes a usable public listing.
• We are as fast as the state agency. Some portals publish same-day; some post in weekly batches. We alert the day our scrape sees a notice — we cannot beat the source.
• No archive spam. When a state republishes its back catalogue, thousands of old notices arrive at once. A notice whose own date is more than 120 days older than the day we first saw it is treated as history, not news, and never paged to you.
• Matching is token-based, so subsidiaries and re-notices are caught but the occasional near-miss happens. Every alert links to the employer's page so you can check.

“Can’t I just filter your free RSS feed?”

For one employer in one state: yes, and you should. Every state we cover has a free RSS feed on this site (OPML bundle, or feeds/<state>.xml), the whole dataset is free CSV, and a keyword rule in Zapier or your reader takes about five minutes. If that is your situation, keep your $49 — we would rather be useful than paid.

Here is the part a keyword rule cannot do, measured on the 45,775 notices in this build:

• Every alert carries the employer’s filing record. Not “this employer filed a notice” but “Boeing — 400th WARN notice from this employer since 1998 · 11 states · 42,128 workers to date · last filed 2025-04-04” — computed against the full 1988-present archive at the moment we alert you. A feed carries only the new item; the history is not in it, and 43% of notices come from an employer that has filed before. See it on the live sample page.
• One rule, 39 states. 2,054 employers in this archive have filed in more than one state (the record is 24). A per-state feed rule is 39 rules to build and 39 to keep working.
• One alert per employer-day, not one per location. The largest single filing here is 67 separate notices from one employer, in one state, on one day — 67 feed items, one line from us.
• Nothing to keep running. When a state changes its portal, we fix the scraper; your rule would just quietly stop matching, and a watch that fails silently is worse than none.

The alternatives, compared honestly

Competitor rows are read from each vendor's own public pricing page (checked 2026-09-02); our rows come from this pipeline's live coverage file (generated 2026-09-07). If a price here is out of date, tell us and we will fix it — open an issue.

The data behind the alerts

45,775 normalized notices across 39 states, newest notice on file 2026-09-04, rebuilt every day. The dataset itself is free and open (CC BY 4.0) — you are not paying for records, you are paying for someone to run your list against them every morning for a year and hand you only what changed. If you would rather build that yourself, the files are right there and we will not be offended.

Who you are paying

Sold by APProjects (Gumroad seller "approj"), the same operator that publishes the open dataset at github.com/APVentureEngine/warn-act-notices. Receipts and invoices are issued by Gumroad. Questions before or after buying: the Contact link on the Gumroad page, or open a GitHub issue — issues are read on every refresh cycle, daily or better.

Sources: official state labor-department WARN listings, collected with the Apache-2.0 biglocalnews/warn-scraper plus our own normalization, dedup, employer canonicalization and freshness layer. Best-effort public records; verify critical rows against the official state source. Not affiliated with any state agency. Nothing here is legal or employment advice.