US layoff notices — week of Mar 17, 2008 to Mar 23, 2008

4WARN notices

583workers 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
Georgia Pacific Wood Products-Talladega	AL	Talladega	380	2008-03-20
Ceres Food Group	IL	Chicago, 5150 N. Northwest Highway Suite 101	80	2008-03-20
Illinois Bell	IL	Chicago, 311 West Washington Street	64	2008-03-17
JP Morgan Chase	IL	Westmont, 601 Oakmont Lane	59	2008-03-19

By state

State	Notices	Workers affected
Alabama (AL)	1	380
Illinois (IL)	3	203

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