US layoff notices — week of Oct 3, 2005 to Oct 9, 2005

5WARN notices

1,131workers 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
Sitel	OR	Hillsboro	695	2005-10-05
GB Enterprises	WA	Arlington	138	2005-10-04
Electronic Data Systems	WA	Tacoma	122	2005-10-07
Cargill	AL	Decatur	106	2005-10-06
Healthsouth	AL	Pelham	70	2005-10-06

By state

State	Notices	Workers affected
Oregon (OR)	1	695
Washington (WA)	2	260
Alabama (AL)	2	176

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