AES Files Two WARN Notices for 41 Workers in Long Beach and Huntington Beach

AES has filed two California WARN notices covering 41 workers at two Southern California sites, both effective January 6, 2027. The notices went to the California Employment Development Department on November 3, 2026: 28 workers in Long Beach and 13 in Huntington Beach.

Forty-one workers is small next to the current 90-day window: 706 notices affecting 65,134 reported workers nationwide. But small filings are the bulk of the registry, and this one lands on a January 2027 calendar that is filling up fast. These are reported plans, not confirmed job losses.

The two filings

Both notices list the employer as AES, both are classified as layoffs, and both share the same notice date and the same effective date:

• Long Beach, California — 28 workers. Effective January 6, 2027. Notice filed November 3, 2026.
• Huntington Beach, California — 13 workers. Effective January 6, 2027. Notice filed November 3, 2026.

The two cities sit about 15 miles apart. The filings do not name the specific facilities, the job titles affected, or whether the workers are covered by a union contract. The registry fields — employer, location, headcount, dates, event type — match exactly across both notices, the usual pattern when one employer files for two sites on the same day.

A 64-day notice, just over the federal minimum

November 3 to January 6 is 64 days — four more than the 60 days the federal WARN Act requires for a covered layoff. That sits in the middle of the recent California pattern: ServiceNow gave 61 days for its two January 4 filings, Wedgewood Village Pharmacy gave 63 for its 71-worker San Jose filing, and Amazon gave 90 for its 94-worker La Puente filing.

The 60-day rule is a floor, not a target. Sixty-four days gives affected workers roughly nine weeks to file for unemployment, contact Rapid Response, and look for the next job while still employed. Workers should still check the details: the registry records the employer's plan, and the effective date is the scheduled date, not the last paid day.

California keeps leading the national numbers

California accounts for 21,514 of the 65,134 reported workers in the current 90-day window — about one in three nationwide. Washington is second with 17,411, followed by Illinois with 3,548, Texas with 2,750, and Virginia with 2,546. California and Washington together hold nearly 60 percent of the total.

The state's archive holds 17,682 non-cancelled notices reporting 1,460,358 workers, including 1,254 dated in 2026 reporting 68,531 workers. In the last 365 days the official feed holds 1,340 filings reporting 73,360 workers; 169 notices carry future effective dates.

January 2027 is filling up fast

The AES notices add 41 workers to a January 2027 calendar that has grown steadily all fall. January 4 is the busiest day so far, with at least 242 workers across five filings: ServiceNow's 37 in Santa Clara and 25 in San Diego, Wedgewood Village Pharmacy's 71 in San Jose, Eclipse Advantage's 35 in Perris, and Haas Automation's 74 in Oxnard. January 2 holds 241 — Community Tree Service's 163 in Pajaro and The Vons Companies' 78 in Anaheim Hills. Later in the month: 91 at Seattle Marriott Redmond on January 5, 119 at Comcast in New Jersey on January 27, and 149 across Amazon and Mars Information Services on January 31.

The near-term picture is unchanged: the heaviest week on the six-week calendar is November 14, with 8,510 workers scheduled, then November 21 with 6,925 and November 28 with 6,063. The week of November 7 holds 4,155, December 5 holds 1,090, and December 12 holds 3,755 — a six-week total of 30,498. The AES layoffs sit just past that window.

Read the dates before you trust them

Two other filings in the same batch show why every WARN record deserves a second look. Crinetics Pharmaceuticals filed a 78-worker notice in San Diego effective January 4, 2026 — ten months before its November 3, 2026 notice date. Pacific Coast Grill filed a 119-worker notice in Cardiff effective March 1, 2026, against an October 30, 2026 notice date. Both are source-data errors, and neither was treated as a lead here.

WARN figures describe notices employers filed and states published, not a census of layoffs. Counts can be missing — 31 notices in the current window have none — and coverage varies by state, so a filing that looks large can rest on a mistyped date. The numbers are a starting point for where layoffs are planned, not a final count of jobs lost.

What happens next

For the 41 AES workers, the 64-day notice period is now running. They can contact California's Rapid Response team for help with unemployment claims, job search, and retraining, and file for unemployment through the Employment Development Department. The layoff takes effect January 6, 2027, unless the employer files an update changing the date — which the WARN rules allow, with fresh notice.

The broader signal is the calendar: January 2027 already holds more than a dozen WARN filings across four states, and the newest notices keep adding to it. AES is a small part of that total — but 41 workers across two coastal cities, filed the same day with the same effective date, is exactly how the January numbers are being built: one filing at a time.

Data source: Layoff Atlas.