WARN Notice Alerts
State layoff filings before the company press release writes the headline.
WARN notice alerts watch state layoff filings that hit before the press release.
The federal WARN Act and state cousins make many employers file planned mass layoffs with a state workforce agency. Those lists are public. Local reporters mine them. Company PR writes a softer version later, if they write at all. If you wait for the newsroom, you are reading the second draft.
Not every cut files a WARN. Not every WARN is a death spiral. A plant move can look like a massacre in a spreadsheet. Read the notice.
What a WARN is
It is a state filing with an employer name, a site, a headcount, and a date. Portals differ. Some are PDFs. Some are HTML tables. AyeWatch watches the public pages you paste and topics that mention new WARN filings for named employers. It summarizes that a notice appeared. It is not a complete national WARN database. It is not Bloomberg.
Name the companies and the states where they actually have bodies. "All US WARN" is a second full-time job.
Before the PR
Topic: "Alert me when a WARN or state mass-layoff notice posts for these employers in these states. Ignore opinion pieces about 'the labor market' that do not cite a filing." Add the state portal URLs. Add the company 8-K watch if they are public, via a sibling topic.
Public-company 8-Ks around the same event live in SEC filing monitoring. Hiring signals on the same names live in competitor hiring monitoring.
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Start with one state portal you already check by hand. Prove the watch. Then add the second state. Push if you act on the notice the same day. Email if you are building a research log. Free Preview is six lifetime runs across three topics. Pro is $9 a month.
ASAP helps when a name is both in your book and in a state that posts without fanfare. Most desks do not need it on day one.
After the notice
Open the filing. Check the site and the count. Then look for the 8-K or the local article. Court follow-ups, if the cut turns into a fight, belong with court docket monitoring. Start from /for/investors or templates with employers you can name without a cheat sheet.