The pandemic has triggered layoffs across California.

Use our search feature to see which companies have laid off employees since the start of 2020

By: Tylar Campbell, Salma Loum, Vanessa Ochavillo, and Nisa Khan

Publication Date: May 10th, 2020

The United States is seeing mass layoffs across the country due to the coronavirus pandemic and stay-at-home orders. Currently, the unemployment rate is at an all-time high: 22.5%, the worst since the Great Depression. Thirty-nine million Americans have lost their jobs in the past nine weeks, across all industries, from bartenders to bus drivers to members of the press.

The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN, Act of 1988 requires employers to provide a 60-day notice before closing down or conducting large-scale layoffs of 100 or more employees. Despite this requirement, many companies also have not filed the paperwork to reflect these layoffs and therefore, the database is unable to account for those lost jobs. Based on this, 183 companies have filed WARN notices and 14,601 jobs have been lost in California.

Stanford Journalism students filed a federal information request and compiled all available WARN notices issued to employees in 2020 in the state of California. The most updated data can also be found on Stanford’s Big Local News. It is worth noting that this search bar also includes WARN notices issued before March when the pandemic made more impact in the United States. The results will show you: company, type of industry, layoff data, if they is unionized, and how many employees.