US layoff notices — week of Mar 10, 2003 to Mar 16, 2003

8WARN notices

846workers 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
Harper-Wyman Appliance Controls	IL	PRINCETON, 525 ELM PLACE	268	2003-03-11
Spectrulite Consortium	IL	MADISON, 1001 COLLEGE STREET BOX 258	168	2003-03-14
Avondale Mills	AL	Bon Air	114	2003-03-13
Cooper Lighting	IL	Bedford Park, 6721 W. 73rd Street	111	2003-03-14
Leggett & Platt	IL	NILES, 6333 WEST HOWARD STREET	71	2003-03-10
Famous Brands Distributors	KS	—	56	2003-03-12
Goldblatt's Department Stores	IL	Chicago, 7538 S Stony Island Ave	55	2003-03-12
Lucent Technologies	KS	—	3	2003-03-11

By state

State	Notices	Workers affected
Illinois (IL)	5	673
Alabama (AL)	1	114
Kansas (KS)	2	59

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