US layoff notices — week of Aug 23, 2004 to Aug 29, 2004

4WARN notices

248workers 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
Microsoft	WA	Redmond	67	2004-08-23
Haeger Industries	IL	Macomb, 411 W Calhoun St	65	2004-08-27
U.S.Can	IL	Elgin, 1111 Bowes Rd. Olive Can Division	62	2004-08-24
Chelsea Industries	KY	Trigg	54	2004-08-24

By state

State	Notices	Workers affected
Illinois (IL)	2	127
Washington (WA)	1	67
Kentucky (KY)	1	54

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