US layoff notices — week of Apr 18, 2011 to Apr 24, 2011

6WARN notices

419workers affected

5states

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
First Data Technologies/First Data Merchant Service	KY	—	157	2011-04-21
Cristal Global, Millennium Inorganic Chemicals	MD	3901 Fort Armistead Road, Baltimore, MD	78	2011-04-19
Ditan Distribution	IN	Plainfield	76	2011-04-19
Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems Edmonton Plant 4	KY	—	57	2011-04-21
Hawker Beechcraft	KS	—	50	2011-04-18
Electrolux Home Products	IA	Webster City	1	2011-04-21

By state

State	Notices	Workers affected
Kentucky (KY)	2	214
Maryland (MD)	1	78
Indiana (IN)	1	76
Kansas (KS)	1	50
Iowa (IA)	1	1

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