How we know what we say.
The Layoff Wire is a small operation with a strict rule: every number on it traces back to a document a reader can open. This page explains where the documents come from, how we read them, and where a human stands between the machine and the page.
We are currently ingesting from 29 states, with 13 more configured and not yet returning filings.
Where the data comes from
State labor departments, first.
The WARN Act requires many employers to notify a state agency before a mass layoff or plant closing. Those notices are the backbone of the Layoff Wire, and we take them from each state's own published record rather than from a press release.
Across the 29 states currently ingesting, we use warn-scraper where it covers a state. It is the Apache-2.0 project maintained by Big Local News at the Stanford Computational Journalism Lab, which reads the same state pages we would. Minnesota and North Carolina aren't covered by that project, so their filings here are entered by hand from each state's own record until our parsers for them are running. Where an aggregator sits in the path, we say so here rather than claim there is never one.
Ingesting
Returning filings.
| State | Source | Format | Cadence | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AK | Alaska DOLWD WARN noticesReturning filings.Public record (state agency). | html | weekly | 8 hours ago |
| AZ | Arizona DES WARN lookup (Arizona Job Connection)Returning filings.Public record (state agency). | html | weekly | 8 hours ago |
| CA | California EDD WARN ReportReturning filings.Public record (state agency). | xlsx | daily | 8 hours ago |
| CO | Colorado CDLE WARN listReturning filings.WARN notices are public records under the Colorado Open Records Act, C.R.S. 24-72-201 to 24-72-309 (stated on the page). | csv | daily | 8 hours ago |
| CT | Connecticut DOL WARN document libraryReturning filings.Public record (state agency). | json | weekly | 8 hours ago |
| DE | Delaware JobLink WARN lookupReturning filings.Public record (state agency). | html | weekly | 8 hours ago |
| IA | Iowa Workforce Development WARNReturning filings.Public record (state agency). | html | weekly | 8 hours ago |
| IL | Illinois DCEO WARNReturning filings.Public record (state agency). | xlsx | weekly | 8 hours ago |
| KS | KansasWorks WARN lookupReturning filings.Public record (state agency). | html | weekly | 8 hours ago |
| KY | Kentucky Career Center WARN noticesReturning filings.Public record (state agency). | xlsx | weekly | 8 hours ago |
| ME | Maine JobLink WARN lookupReturning filings.Public record (state agency). | html | weekly | 8 hours ago |
| MT | Montana DLI WARN notice pageReturning filings.Public record (state agency). | xlsx | weekly | 8 hours ago |
| NE | Nebraska DOL WARNReturning filings.Public record (state agency). | html | weekly | 8 hours ago |
| NJ | New Jersey DOL WARN Notice ArchiveReturning filings.Public record (state agency). | xlsx | daily | 8 hours ago |
| NM | New Mexico DWS Rapid Response (WARN)Returning filings.Public record (state agency). | html | weekly | 8 hours ago |
| NY | New York DOL WARNReturning filings.Public record (state agency). | xlsx | daily | 8 hours ago |
| OK | Oklahoma OESC WARN noticesReturning filings.Public record (state agency). | json | weekly | 8 hours ago |
| OR | Oregon HECC/CCWD WARN noticesReturning filings.Public record (state agency). Records retained six years (stated on the page). | html | weekly | 8 hours ago |
| PA | Pennsylvania L&I WARN noticesReturning filings.Public record (state agency). | html | weekly | 8 hours ago |
| RI | Rhode Island DLT WARNReturning filings.Public record (state agency). | html | weekly | 1 day ago |
| SC | South Carolina DEW layoff notification reportsReturning filings.Public record (state agency). | weekly | 8 hours ago | |
| SD | South Dakota DLR WARN noticesReturning filings.Public record (state agency). | html | weekly | 8 hours ago |
| TN | Tennessee DOLWD WARN reportsReturning filings.Public record (state agency). | html | weekly | 8 hours ago |
| TX | Texas Workforce Commission WARNReturning filings.Public record. Socrata open data. | socrata | daily | 9 hours ago |
| UT | Utah DWS WARN noticesReturning filings.Public record (state agency). | html | weekly | 8 hours ago |
| VA | Virginia Works WARN noticesReturning filings.Public record (state agency). | csv | daily | 8 hours ago |
| VT | Vermont JobLink WARN lookupReturning filings.Public record (state agency). | html | weekly | 8 hours ago |
| WA | Washington ESD WARN databaseReturning filings.Public record (state agency). | html | weekly | 8 hours ago |
| WI | Wisconsin DWD WARN noticesReturning filings.Public record (state agency). | html | weekly | 8 hours ago |
Configured, not yet ingesting
Adapter written, nothing pulled yet.
| State | Source | Format | Cadence | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL | Alabama Department of Commerce WARN listSource registered and adapter written. No filings ingested yet.Public record (state agency). | html | weekly | Never |
| DC | DC DOES industry closings and layoffs (WARN)Source registered and adapter written. No filings ingested yet.Public record (district agency). | html | weekly | Never |
| FL | Florida Commerce WARNRegistered source. Filings so far were loaded by hand from this record; the automated pull has not run yet.Public record (state agency). | html | daily | Never |
| HI | Hawaii DLIR real-time WARN updatesSource registered and adapter written. No filings ingested yet.Public record (state agency). | html | weekly | Never |
| ID | Idaho Department of Labor layoff assistance (WARN)Source registered and adapter written. No filings ingested yet.Public record (state agency). | html | weekly | Never |
| IN | Indiana DWD WARN noticesRegistered source. Filings so far were loaded by hand from this record; the automated pull has not run yet.Public record (state agency). | html | weekly | Never |
| MA | Massachusetts EOLWD WARN reportRegistered source. Filings so far were loaded by hand from this record; the automated pull has not run yet.Public record (state agency). | xlsx | weekly | Never |
| MD | Maryland DLLR WARN logSource registered and adapter written. No filings ingested yet.Public record (state agency). | html | weekly | Never |
| MI | Michigan LEO WARN noticesSource registered and adapter written. No filings ingested yet.Public record (state agency). | html | weekly | Never |
| MN | Minnesota DEED WARN ArchiveRegistered source. Filings so far were loaded by hand from this record; the automated pull has not run yet.Public record (state agency). | daily | Never | |
| MO | Missouri jobs.mo.gov WARN noticesSource registered and adapter written. No filings ingested yet.Public record (state agency). | html | weekly | Never |
| NC | NC Commerce Workforce WARN ReportsRegistered source. Filings so far were loaded by hand from this record; the automated pull has not run yet.Public record (state agency). | html | weekly | Never |
| OH | Ohio JFS WARNSource registered and adapter written. No filings ingested yet.Public record (state agency). | html | daily | Never |
Excluded
Deliberately not ingested.
| State | Source | Format | Cadence | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GA | Georgia DOL WARNExcluded deliberately. dol.state.ga.us/robots.txt disallows /Access/, the path prefix of Georgia's WARN search tool, so we do not crawl it. We are requesting bulk records from the agency instead.Public record (state agency). | html | manual | Never |
| LA | Louisiana Workforce Commission WARNlaworks.net/robots.txt: Disallow: / for all agents. Not fetched. Louisiana filings are entered by hand from the published report.Public record (state agency). | xlsx | weekly | Never |
Where a state publishes its own licensing or robots terms, they are shown against that source above. Our own compilation stays free to cite with attribution.
What a filing is not
A WARN notice is a legal form, not a diagnosis.
A WARN filing tells you that a set number of jobs is ending at a named place on a named date. It does not say why. It does not, by itself, indicate AI-driven displacement — and anyone charting WARN counts as an AI-job-loss series is telling you something the document does not contain.
Attribution tiers
We grade the explanation, not the cause.
When a layoff event is assembled from one or more filings, we search SEC full-text filings — 8-Ks, 10-Qs, and their exhibits — for the employer's own account of the reduction. The test is proximity: does the company's AI or automation language sit inside the same passage as its reduction language? The matching is rule-based and auditable. We never ask a language model to decide a tier.
AI-Direct
The employer explicitly ties the reduction to AI or automation.
AI-Adjacent
AI or automation appears in the same explanation, alongside other stated causes.
Business Cycle
The employer cites demand, restructuring, cost, or closure, with no AI language.
Mixed
Multiple filings for the same event explain it differently.
Unknown
No stated reason we can source to a document.
Tiers describe how the employer explained itself, not our judgement of what really happened.
Common questions
WARN notices, answered.
How many days' notice does the WARN Act require?
The federal WARN Act requires 60 days' written notice before a covered plant closing or mass layoff. It applies to employers with 100 or more full-time workers, when 50 or more people at one site lose their jobs in a closing, or when a layoff reaches 500 workers (or 50 to 499 if that is at least a third of the site).
Does the WARN Act apply to remote workers?
Often, yes. Remote employees are usually counted at the site they report to or are managed from, so they can be part of a covered layoff there. Whether a specific remote role counts is a fact question worth putting to an employment attorney.
Which states have their own WARN laws?
Several states add their own notice law on top of the federal act, sometimes with lower thresholds or longer notice periods. We don't yet publish a sourced state-by-state summary; each state page shows the federal rule and links to that state's own published record.
How do I check whether my employer filed a WARN notice?
Search the employer in the WARN ledger, or open your state's page from the coverage table. Each filing links back to the state's own record. Our coverage is a partial view, so if you don't find it here, check your state labor department directly.
Where does PinkSlipped get its layoff data?
WARN filings come from each state's own published record, some through the open-source warn-scraper project and some through our own parsers. Layoff events add company filings, reporting and public trackers, and every event is read by a person before it publishes.
Human review
Nothing publishes on its own.
The ingest proposes; it never publishes. Every event and every quarantined filing sits in a review queue until a person reads the evidence, keeps or overrides the proposed tier, and signs off. An event with no sourced evidence cannot be published at all — that rule is enforced in the database, not just in the interface.
Corrections
When we're wrong, we say so.
Errors are logged in public with what we published, what is correct, and the date we fixed it. Nothing is quietly edited away.
Macro figures cited on the Layoff Wire come from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. This product uses the FRED® API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
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According to PinkSlipped's Layoff Wire, which tracks WARN notices filed with 33 state labor departments, …
Source: PinkSlipped's Layoff Wire (gotpinkslipped.com/layoff-wire/methodology)