US layoff notices — week of Sep 14, 2009 to Sep 20, 2009

9WARN notices

799workers affected

6states

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
Benchmark Electronics	OR	Beaverton	183	2009-09-15
Adaptis	WA	Seattle	138	2009-09-14
Boeing	WA	Puget Sound	126	2009-09-18
Buckhorn	KY	—	88	2009-09-15
Abitibibowater	AL	Albertville	86	2009-09-18
Comcast Spotlight	IL	Chicago, 8745 West Higgins Road Suite 400	67	2009-09-16
SumTotal Systems	WA	Bellevue	59	2009-09-15
Laika	OR	Portland	52	2009-09-17

By state

State	Notices	Workers affected
Washington (WA)	3	323
Oregon (OR)	2	235
Kentucky (KY)	1	88
Alabama (AL)	1	86
Illinois (IL)	1	67
Delaware (DE)	1	0

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