US layoff notices — week of Aug 29, 2005 to Sep 4, 2005

14WARN notices

1,076workers affected

2states

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
Lenox China	NJ	POMONA	285	2005-09-01
Saint-Gobain Containers	NJ	CARTERET	200	2005-09-01
Meadwestvaco	NJ	PINE BROOK	133	2005-09-01
Skyline Port Newark	NJ	LINDEN	73	2005-09-01
Seaborn Health Care	KS	—	72	2005-09-02
Interstate Brands	NJ	STATEWIDE	59	2005-09-01
Degussa	NJ	PARSIPPANY	58	2005-09-01
Prudential Financial	NJ	HOLMDEL	48	2005-09-01
Virgin Atlantic Airways	NJ	NEWARK	42	2005-09-01
P.F. Laboratories	NJ	TOTOWA/W. PATERSON	38	2005-09-01
NJ Porcelain	NJ	TRENTON	34	2005-09-01
Raytheon Aircraft	KS	—	30	2005-08-29
Getronics	NJ	WAYNE	4	2005-09-01

By state

State	Notices	Workers affected
New Jersey (NJ)	12	974
Kansas (KS)	2	102

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