AmeriHealth Caritas has filed a WARN notice covering 61 workers at its Orlando, Florida location, with an effective date of December 31, 2026. The notice is dated October 29, 2026, giving a 63-day gap between the notice and the effective date — just above the 60-day notice period set by the federal WARN Act.

The filing is listed at 2416 Lake Orange Drive, Orlando, FL 32837, and appears in Florida's WARN records via the state's reactwarn.floridajobs.org listing. The event type is not specified in the record, so the filing does not say on its face whether the affected jobs end through a closure, a layoff, or a combination of the two. What it does establish is the scale, the place, and the date: 61 reported workers in Orlando, effective on the last day of 2026.

The 63-day notice period

The arithmetic matters because the federal WARN Act generally requires covered employers to give 60 days' advance notice of a qualifying plant closing or mass layoff. Here, the gap from October 29 to December 31 is 63 days. That is longer than the federal floor, but a longer gap alone does not settle any legal question about the filing — coverage depends on employer size and on whether the event meets the federal thresholds, neither of which this record states.

Workers named in a WARN filing should also keep the effective date in perspective. December 31 is the date the filing says the employment losses take effect, not the date the notice was filed.

These are reported plans, not confirmed job losses. WARN filings describe what an employer has told the state it plans to do. Plans can change, dates can move, and some filings are later amended or withdrawn. The numbers below should be read in that light.

A year-end effective date — a familiar pattern

December 31 is turning into a crowded effective date in the current WARN data. AmeriHealth Caritas joins a cluster of filings already scheduled to take effect that day, including Comcast's 634-worker Philadelphia filing, Dexter Axle's 51-worker Elkhart filing, and the Family Endeavors filings in Maryland and Pennsylvania.

For the workers involved, the timing has a practical edge. An effective date at the end of December means the notice period runs through the holiday season, and any severance, benefits, or unemployment timeline will be set against a January start. Workers in this position should check when their health coverage actually ends — it does not always end on the last day of employment.

Florida in the national picture

Florida has no state mini-WARN law, so the federal WARN Act's thresholds and 60-day rule are the governing standard for filings like this one. Florida's WARN list is published through the state's workforce system, and Layoff Atlas imports those records alongside other states' filings.

The broader Florida archive is large: 3,320 non-cancelled imported notices reporting 342,459 workers, with 13 notices carrying future effective dates. In 2026 so far, Florida accounts for 308 notices and 19,259 reported workers. Over the last 365 days, the archive holds 113 eligible official Florida filings reporting 5,938 workers, and October 29, 2026 — the AmeriHealth Caritas notice date — is the newest official notice date in the Florida record.

Nationally, the current 90-day window holds 680 notices covering 65,051 reported workers, with 28 counts unavailable. California leads the state ranking with 18,261 reported workers, followed by Washington with 17,306, Illinois with 3,677, Texas with 3,114, and Virginia with 2,373.

What the next six weeks look like

The upcoming effective weeks put the AmeriHealth Caritas filing in context. Across the country, 2,683 workers are scheduled in the week of November 2, followed by 6,617 in the week of November 9, 6,202 in the week of November 16, 6,207 in the week of November 23, 5,862 in the week of November 30, and 762 in the week of December 7 — a six-week total of 28,333 reported workers. The heaviest week in that stretch is November 9, and the quietest is December 7.

The AmeriHealth Caritas effective date, December 31, falls outside that six-week window, in the final week of the year. Week-by-week totals only capture what is scheduled in the near term; filings with later effective dates, like this one, are already on the books and will move into the upcoming-weeks totals as the calendar advances.

What to watch next

Three things are worth watching from here. First, whether the filing is amended — a changed effective date or worker count would show up as an update to the record. Second, whether other Orlando employers file notices with the same December 31 effective date, which would suggest a local year-end pattern rather than an isolated filing. Third, how Florida's official filing count moves in November: the state's 2026 total already stands at 308 notices.

For workers, the immediate steps are practical: confirm the effective date in writing, keep a copy of the notice, check benefits end dates, and contact the state's rapid response or career center services early in the notice period rather than waiting until the final week. A 63-day notice period is only useful if it is used.

Data source: Layoff Atlas