Amazon Files 94-Worker WARN Notice for La Puente, California, Effective January 31, 2027
Amazon has filed a WARN notice covering 94 workers at its La Puente, California site, with the layoff effective January 31, 2027. The notice was filed on November 2, 2026, through the California Employment Development Department, giving affected workers 90 days of advance warning — a full month more than the 60 days the federal WARN Act requires.
It is the largest recent California filing not yet covered in this series, and one of the furthest-out effective dates on the national registry. These are reported plans, not confirmed job losses: a WARN notice describes what an employer says it intends to do, and the final headcount can change before the effective date.
The filing at a glance
- Employer: Amazon
- Site: La Puente, California
- Workers affected: 94
- Event type: Layoff
- Notice date: November 2, 2026
- Effective date: January 31, 2027
- Notice period: 90 days
- Source: California Employment Development Department, via the Layoff Atlas registry
A 90-day notice period
The federal WARN Act requires 60 days' written notice before a qualifying mass layoff or plant closure. Amazon's La Puente filing gives 90 days, 30 days beyond that floor.
Longer notice periods are common in California filings. The state's own mini-WARN law also sets a 60-day standard, so a 90-day notice is a choice by the employer rather than a legal requirement. For workers, the practical difference is time: three months to look for a new job, file for unemployment benefits, and use state Rapid Response services, rather than two.
Amazon's second recent WARN filing
This is not Amazon's only recent WARN filing. A separate 95-worker filing covers an Amazon site in Washington state, effective December 7, 2026. The two filings are distinct records: different states, different sites, different effective dates, and different worker counts.
That pattern is normal: large employers file site by site, and each filing stands on its own. The two numbers should not be added together as if they described one event.
California still leads the national picture
California remains the state with the most reported layoff plans in the current 90-day window. The national registry now holds 706 notices covering 65,134 reported workers, with 31 counts unavailable, updated November 7, 2026. California accounts for 21,514 of those workers — about one in three. Washington is second at 17,411. Together the two states hold 38,925 workers, or nearly 60 percent of the national total. Illinois (3,548), Texas (2,750), and Virginia (2,546) round out the top five.
California's own archive is far larger than the 90-day window suggests: 17,682 non-cancelled imported notices reporting 1,460,358 workers, with 1,254 notices covering 68,531 workers in 2026 alone. Coverage is partial everywhere, though, and reporting rules vary — a state with a high total may simply report more completely than one with a low total, and missing source coverage is not zero layoffs.
Where January 31 sits on the calendar
The registry's six-week outlook runs from the week of November 7 through the week of December 12. The week of November 14 is the heaviest, with 8,510 workers scheduled, followed by November 21 (6,925) and November 28 (6,063). December looks quieter so far: 1,090 workers are scheduled for the week of December 5, and 3,755 for the week of December 12. Across all six weeks, 30,498 workers are scheduled, and November accounts for about 84 percent of that total.
Amazon's January 31 effective date falls beyond that six-week window, and the registry's future effective dates stretch into early 2027 — the Children's Place filing in New Jersey, for example, is effective February 4, 2027. The layoff calendar does not end with December: notices filed now are already shaping the first quarter of 2027.
What the numbers do and don't say
WARN notices are advance notifications of qualifying mass layoffs and plant closures, filed with state labor agencies. They describe reported plans, not confirmed job losses: a filing can be amended, delayed, or reduced before the effective date, and some workers listed in a notice may keep their jobs through transfers or reassignments.
The law also has thresholds, so the registry is not a census of all layoffs. The federal WARN Act generally applies to employers with 100 or more full-time workers, and to layoffs of 50 or more workers when they make up at least a third of a site's workforce, or 500 or more regardless of share. Smaller layoffs, and layoffs at smaller employers, usually never produce a notice. The registry's 706 notices and 65,134 workers should be read as a floor, not a total.
What happens next for affected workers
For the 94 La Puente workers, the notice period runs until January 31, 2027. During that time, workers can file for unemployment benefits, contact California's Rapid Response program for reemployment services, and check whether their employer offers severance or outplacement support. None of that is automatic: unemployment claims must be filed, and benefits depend on each worker's earnings history and eligibility. The original notice is available through the California Employment Development Department.
The La Puente filing is a single data point, but it fits the pattern the data has shown all autumn: California filing steadily, large employers filing site by site, and the heaviest weeks still ahead. The week of November 14, when 8,510 workers are scheduled, is the next number to watch.
Data source: Layoff Atlas
