December 16 Is the Newest Week on the WARN Calendar: 5,491 Workers Scheduled

The layoff calendar kept growing this week. The newest week on the WARN calendar — the week of December 16 — now shows 5,491 workers with scheduled effective dates. It is the second-heaviest week in the six-week window, behind only the Thanksgiving week, and it arrives right after the two quietest weeks of the period.

As of the latest update on November 11, the Layoff Atlas registry holds 665 WARN notices covering 64,336 reported workers in the 90-day window, with 30 notices carrying no worker count.…