Missouri Layoffs November 2026: WARN Numbers Explained

Missouri's WARN record tells two different stories at once. The state's full archive holds 375 imported notices covering 48,898 reported workers — a substantial history. But in 2026, the 29 notices recorded so far report zero workers between them. That gap is the story of this refresh: Missouri's 2026 layoff picture is visible in outline, but the headcounts are missing.

These are reported plans, not confirmed job losses. A WARN notice records what an employer told the state it intended to do, and the figures below describe notices, not unique people or completed layoffs.

The archive at a glance

Missouri's imported WARN archive contains 375 non-cancelled notices reporting 48,898 workers. Of those, 114 notices — nearly a third — carry no worker count at all. There are no future effective dates on the books: nothing in the archive is scheduled to take effect after today.

Every one of the 375 records is an attributed secondary report. Missouri has zero direct government records in the archive, and zero eligible official filings in the last 365 days. That matters: the registry is reading Missouri through secondary sources, not the state's own published WARN list.

The 2026 picture: notices without numbers

So far in 2026, Missouri has 29 notices — and not one of them reports a worker count. The 2026 total of zero reported workers is not evidence that nobody was laid off in Missouri this year. It is evidence that the secondary records feeding the registry this year did not include headcounts.

Compare 2025, when 50 notices reported just 456 workers — about nine per counted notice, far below the national average of roughly 95 in the current 90-day window. The pattern is consistent: Missouri's secondary-sourced records tend to arrive without the numbers that make WARN data useful.

Year by year

The archive's shape is dominated by 2020, when 162 notices reported 33,787 workers — about 69 percent of all the workers in Missouri's entire archive. That pandemic-year spike is the single largest feature of the state's record.

Since then the counts have been modest: 22 notices and 4,089 workers in 2021; 10 notices and 2,040 workers in 2022; 37 notices and 2,059 workers in 2023; 39 notices and 3,806 workers in 2024; 50 notices and 456 workers in 2025; and 29 notices with no reported workers in 2026. In 2019, the last pre-pandemic year, 26 notices reported 2,661 workers.

Since 2021 the trend is a slow drift downward in reported workers per notice, ending in a 2026 where the count column is simply blank.

The newest filings

The most recent 2026 records are all secondary WARN Feed entries, and none carries a worker count, a location, or an effective date. The newest is Aramark, recorded September 16, 2026, followed by the St Louis Post-Dispatch on September 3 and Springfield Mechanical Services on September 2. August brought Cornerstone Building Brands (August 20). July was the busiest recent month, with Federal Express twice (July 29), Compass Group USA (July 22), Schnuck Markets (July 17), Charter Communications (July 9), and both Nature's Bakery and Great Southern Bank on July 7.

Earlier in the year: Conduent Commercial Solutions (June 30), the St Louis Post-Dispatch again (June 24), Bausch + Lomb (June 8), SMBC Manubank (June 5), General Mills (June 2), Timken Belts (May 4), Nike IHM (April 24), Trilogy Warehouse Partners (April 10), Durham School Services (April 9), General Mills Operations (April 6), Oracle (April 1), Saks (March 6), Main Street Sports Group (February 13), and Community Wholesale Tire Distributors (February 10).

The names are familiar — food service, logistics, retail, manufacturing — but without counts or effective dates, each entry flags that something was reported, not its size.

Missouri in the national picture

Nationally, the current 90-day window holds 667 notices covering 63,168 reported workers, with 30 counts unavailable. California (20,982 workers) and Washington (17,411) dominate the totals, followed by Illinois (3,432), Maryland (2,484), and Virginia (2,473).

The coming weeks are heavy: 5,477 workers are scheduled effective the week of November 10, 6,613 the week of November 17, and 9,300 the week of November 24 — the heaviest week on the calendar — before the pace eases to 2,593 (December 1), 1,337 (December 8), and 5,628 (December 15).

Missouri contributes nothing to those upcoming totals, because it has no future effective dates recorded. That is a coverage fact, not a finding: a state with no direct official feed in the registry cannot show scheduled layoffs the registry never received.

How to read Missouri's numbers

Three cautions apply. First, zero reported workers in 2026 does not mean zero layoffs — it means zero counted layoffs in the records the registry holds. Second, all 375 records are secondary, so company names are grouped by normalized name and the registry itself notes that grouped names do not establish ownership. Third, 114 of the 375 notices have no worker count, so even the archive total of 48,898 is a floor, not a complete count.

What the data does support: Missouri's WARN history is real but thinly measured in recent years, its 2020 spike mirrors the national pandemic pattern, and its 2026 record is a list of employer names without the numbers that would let anyone size the impact. Until Missouri's official filings reach the registry directly, the state's layoff picture will stay an outline.

Data source: Layoff Atlas.