US layoff notices — week of Jan 2, 2006 to Jan 8, 2006

5WARN notices

737workers 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
Bechtel National	WA	Richland	275	2006-01-06
Capital City Press	VT	—	189	2006-01-03
Fruit of the Loom - Jamestown Sewing Department	KY	Russell	100	2006-01-03
Mcrae's	AL	Birmingham	87	2006-01-04
Schoeller Arca Systems	WA	Tacoma	86	2006-01-03

By state

State	Notices	Workers affected
Washington (WA)	2	361
Vermont (VT)	1	189
Kentucky (KY)	1	100
Alabama (AL)	1	87

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