A fresh round of layoffs is set to hit US workers in August, with household names including Amazon, Walmart and FedEx among more than 20 employers that have filed official notices of job cuts across multiple states, according to publicly available Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) records.
WARN filings are one of the few early warning systems ordinary workers get before a pink slip arrives. Under the federal WARN Act, companies with 100 or more staff generally must give 60 days' notice before a plant closure or mass layoff that affects at least 50 employees. Several states, notably California and New York, go further with stricter, state-level rules that capture a wider range of redundancies.
