Davey Tree Surgery Files 10 WARN Notices Across California: 368 Workers, One Effective Date
On October 29, 2026, Davey Tree Surgery filed not one WARN notice in California, but ten. The filings cover 368 workers across 10 separate sites, from Felton to Gardena, and every one of them lists the same effective date: December 31, 2026. All ten are official records from the California Employment Development Department, and none of them had been covered in our reporting until now.
It is the kind of filing pattern that is easy to miss. No single Davey Tree notice is large. The biggest covers 64 workers; the smallest covers 12. But added together, 368 workers is larger than most single-site filings in the current data, and the synchronized timing — ten sites, one day, one effective date — points to a coordinated decision rather than ten separate ones.
The 10 filings
All ten notices were filed on October 29, 2026, all list the event type as layoff, and all take effect December 31, 2026:
- Felton — 64 workers
- Signal Hill — 64 workers
- Livermore (remote) — 57 workers
- Santa Fe Springs — 39 workers
- Stanton — 37 workers
- Royal Oaks — 34 workers
- Freedom — 22 workers
- Mountain View (6 Church Street) — 20 workers
- Mountain View (Crittenden Lane) — 19 workers
- Gardena — 12 workers
The total is 368 workers. Two sites are in Mountain View; the rest stretch from Felton in the Santa Cruz Mountains to Gardena in Los Angeles County.
One employer, 10 small notices
WARN notices are filed site by site, not company by company. That is why a single employer's decision can show up in the data as a scatter of small filings instead of one big one. Each Davey Tree location is its own employment site, so each one gets its own notice, its own worker count, and its own line in the registry — even when the underlying decision is the same.
That matters for how the numbers read. Taken alone, a 12-worker filing in Gardena or a 19-worker filing in Mountain View looks minor. Taken together, the ten filings add up to a workforce reduction of 368 people at one company, on one effective date. For comparison, the largest single recent California filing is AEG Management Oakland, with 1,605 workers effective the same day, and the Comcast Technology Center filing in Philadelphia covers 634 workers. Davey Tree's combined total sits well below those, but above nearly every other single-site filing from the same notice batch.
The 63-day notice period
The timing is also worth noting. October 29 to December 31 is 63 days — just over the 60-day advance notice the federal WARN Act requires for a covered employer. California's own Cal-WARN law sets a lower coverage threshold than the federal law (75 employees instead of 100), which is one reason California's registry captures filings that would not appear in states that follow only the federal standard.
All ten filings are listed as layoffs rather than closures, which means the notices describe job cuts at operating sites rather than sites shutting down entirely. The workers affected stay employed through the notice period, with December 31, 2026 as the effective date of the layoffs.
California in the national picture
California remains the state with the most reported layoff plans in the current 90-day window: 20,812 workers across the state's filings, ahead of Washington at 17,411. Nationally, the registry currently shows 675 notices covering 64,274 reported workers, with 28 counts unavailable. Illinois (3,548), Texas (2,750), and Virginia (2,526) round out the top five states.
In 2026 so far, the state's archive holds 1,229 notices covering 67,829 workers. The full archive — 17,657 non-cancelled notices reporting 1,459,656 workers — includes 145 notices with future effective dates. The newest official notice date in the California archive is November 2, 2026.
What December 31 looks like now
December 31, 2026 is already the busiest single effective date on the calendar. Davey Tree's 368 workers join a date that also carries the AEG Management Oakland filing (1,605 workers), the Comcast Technology Center filing in Philadelphia (634 workers), the Chick-fil-A closure in Oxnard (87 workers), and the iLEAD Lancaster layoff (119 workers), among others.
The weeks around it are heavy too. The week of November 13 is the heaviest upcoming week, with 8,850 workers scheduled, followed by the week of November 20 with 7,181 and the week of November 27 with 5,991. Across the six weeks from November 6 to December 11, 29,797 workers are currently scheduled for layoffs to take effect.
How to read these numbers
These figures describe reported plans, not confirmed job losses. A WARN notice is an employer's advance notification of a qualifying layoff or closure; plans can change, counts can be revised, and some filings are later cancelled. Worker totals exclude the notices where no count was reported, and coverage varies by state because reporting rules and publication practices differ. California's numbers are comparatively complete because Cal-WARN covers more employers than the federal law alone.
The Davey Tree filings are a reminder to read WARN data company by company as well as filing by filing. Ten small notices on the same day can be one story — and 368 workers is a story worth counting together.
Data source: Layoff Atlas.
