US layoff notices — week of Dec 26, 2011 to Jan 1, 2012

10WARN notices

1,302workers affected

3states

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
CommScope	NE	Omaha	400	2011-12-31
sanofi-aventis U.S	NJ	Bridgewater	391	2012-01-01
A & P	NJ	Kearny	129	2012-01-01
Smiths Detection	NJ	Morristown	100	2012-01-01
A & P	NJ	Bayonne	89	2012-01-01
American Enterprise	NE	Omaha	52	2011-12-27
IntraPac	NJ	Swedesboro	51	2012-01-01
Phoenix Color	NJ	Rockaway	47	2012-01-01
Novartis Pharmaceuticals	NJ	East Hanover	43	2012-01-01

By state

State	Notices	Workers affected
New Jersey (NJ)	7	850
Nebraska (NE)	2	452
Kentucky (KY)	1	0

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