@pipeworx/warn-notices

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US WARN Act layoff and plant-closure notices — the 60-day advance filings employers must make before a mass layoff — from state labor departments.

Coverage is partial on purpose, and every response says so. There is no national WARN database: the federal DOL neither collects nor publishes one, so employers file with the state where the site sits and each state publishes on its own terms. This pack covers the states that publish machine-readable data and reports exactly which those are.

Tools

Every response carries states_covered. An empty result distinguishes state_not_covered from no_matching_notices, because “Georgia isn’t covered” and “this employer filed nothing” are different answers and only one of them is about the employer.

Coverage

Each state is registered in data_freshness separately (warn-ca, warn-il, …) so one stalled feed is visible instead of being hidden behind a fresher state’s date.

Probed and not shipped

Recorded so nobody re-probes them:

• NJ — XLSX exists, but the state’s own file is column-shifted on many rows (company names landing in the date column). Needs row-level repair.
• PA / WA / FL — real and current, but HTML only. PA is a nested accordion, WA an ASP.NET GridView needing __VIEWSTATE postbacks past page one, FL a paginated table. All scrapeable; none machine-readable.
• GA — no current public listing exists. The legacy search still answers but stops in 2013, and the modern site is an employer submission form with no public index.

Data sources

• California EDD — https://edd.ca.gov/en/jobs_and_training/Layoff_Services_WARN
• Illinois WorkNet — https://apps.illinoisworknet.com/iebs/layoff/publiclayoffs
• New York DOL — https://dol.ny.gov/warn-dashboard
• Ohio ODJFS — https://jfs.ohio.gov/ (annual warn-notice.csv asset)
• Texas Workforce Commission — https://data.texas.gov/d/8w53-c4f6

Ingest lives in workers/data-pipeline/src/datasets/warn.ts; the per-source traps are documented there. Table: warn_notices (migration 108).

Gotchas worth knowing

• Texas publishes no layoff-vs-closure flag. type is null for TX rather than guessed — an invented “Layoff” would read as reported fact.
• Texas lags. Its newest notice trailed the other states by ~2 months as of 2026-08-29. That is normal for this feed.
• Effective dates are not always dates. Several states publish a range or the word “various”, so effective_date is set only when it parses and effective_date_as_published always carries what was actually written.
• Company names are free text. Search matches on a suffix-stripped form, so “Tesla” finds “Tesla, Inc.”; matched_filed_names echoes back the exact strings matched so a caller can spot a loose match across sister entities.

Tools

• warn_search — Search US WARN Act layoff and plant-closure notices filed with state labor departments — the legally required 60-day advance notice of a mass layoff or site closure. Returns employer name, site city a
• warn_recent — Most recent US WARN Act layoff and plant-closure notices across every covered state, newest first — the earliest public signal that an employer is cutting jobs, filed roughly 60 days before the layoff
• warn_company — Every WARN Act layoff and closure notice one employer has filed, across all covered states, with a per-state and per-year breakdown. Answers “has Tesla filed layoff notices”, “how many workers has Ama
• warn_coverage — Which US states WARN layoff-notice coverage extends to, how many notices are available for each, and the date of the newest notice per state. Answers “which states do you have WARN data for”, “how cur