US layoff notices — week of Oct 21, 2002 to Oct 27, 2002

4WARN notices

828workers affected

3states

Counts cover the free tier, no delay of the normalized US WARN dataset; notices that surface later are added to this page retroactively. Worker totals sum only notices that published a headcount.

Biggest layoff notices this week

Company	State	Location	Workers	Notice date
Chiquita Processed Foods	OR	SALEM	664	2002-10-24
Ardco Holdings	AL	Scottsboro	140	2002-10-21
Bombardier/Learjet	KS	—	24	2002-10-23

By state

State	Notices	Workers affected
Oregon (OR)	1	664
Alabama (AL)	1	140
Kansas (KS)	2	24

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