US layoff notices — week of Dec 30, 2002 to Jan 5, 2003

7WARN notices

19,785workers affected

4states

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
United Airlines	IL	CHICAGO, O'HARE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT	14,487	2002-12-30
United Airlines	IL	ELK GROVE VILLAGE, 1200 EAST ALGONQUIN ROAD	4,149	2002-12-30
Culinary Foods	IL	CHICAGO, 4201 SOUTH ASHLAND	447	2002-12-30
Kentucky Electrical Steel	KY	Boyd	311	2003-01-03
International Paper	KY	Christian	300	2003-01-02
Sara Lee Baking Group	AL	Huntsville	72	2002-12-30
American Identity	KS	Bonner Springs, One Swingster Rd; Bonner Springs, Kansas 66012	19	2003-01-04

By state

State	Notices	Workers affected
Illinois (IL)	3	19,083
Kentucky (KY)	2	611
Alabama (AL)	1	72
Kansas (KS)	1	19

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