US layoff notices — week of May 23, 2011 to May 29, 2011

29WARN notices

1,509workers affected

10states

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
Premier Bankcard	SD	Spearfish	335	2011-05-23
Grays Harbor Paper	WA	Hoquiam	231	2011-05-27
Nordstrom	IN	Indianapolis	203	2011-05-27
Deluxe	AZ	—	176	2011-05-24
Insight Schools	WA	Bellevue	168	2011-05-26
Petermann Northwest	WA	Seattle	109	2011-05-27
Electrolux Home Care Products	IL	Bloomington, 807 N. Main Street	64	2011-05-27
Diageo	MD	5001 Washington Blvd., Baltimore, MD	55	2011-05-25
Flextronics Americas	AL	Statewide	26	2011-05-27
First Student	CT	Winsted	25	2011-05-26
Flextronics Americas	RI	North Kingstown, Providence, Smithfield and Warwick	21	2011-05-27
RTS	MD	2720 North Salisbury Blvd., Salisbury, MD	14	2011-05-25
RTS	MD	405 Williams Court, Stes., 116-120, Middle River, MD	12	2011-05-25
RTS	MD	8149 Honeygo Boulevard, Suite E, Baltimore, MD	11	2011-05-25
RTS	MD	2562 Solomons Island Road, Annapolis, MD	10	2011-05-25

By state

State	Notices	Workers affected
Washington (WA)	3	508
South Dakota (SD)	1	335
Indiana (IN)	1	203
Arizona (AZ)	2	176
Maryland (MD)	12	143
Illinois (IL)	1	64
Connecticut (CT)	6	32
Alabama (AL)	1	26
Rhode Island (RI)	1	21
Iowa (IA)	1	1

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