Layoff Radar — every new WARN layoff notice in your states, every Monday, by email

Employers with 100 or more workers must file a WARN notice before a plant closing or mass layoff, and California, Illinois and New York publish those filings. The agency files are workbooks and dashboard exports that nobody reads weekly. Layoff Radar reads them for you: every Monday morning you get an email listing each notice posted in the last seven days in the states you picked at checkout — employer, city and county, number of workers, notice and effective dates, notice type, and the agency file it came from. Nothing is summarised, ranked or predicted.

Read this first. Layoff Radar is software-generated from the public WARN files of the California EDD, Illinois DCEO and New York State DOL. It reproduces what the agencies list — employer, location, headcount, dates, notice type — and nothing else; the agencies say their lists do not capture all layoff activity. It is not legal, financial or career advice, and nothing in it decides anyone's eligibility for notice pay, unemployment insurance or retraining aid — the state agency, the local workforce board and the courts do.

What was posted in the last 14 days

From the sample issue below, read 2026-09-05. Each Monday issue covers seven days.

California53notices · 3,262 workers listed
California EDD

Illinois3notices · 132 workers listed
Illinois DCEO

New York6notices · 593 workers listed
New York State DOL

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At checkout you name your states: CA, IL, NY, any or all. The first issue (the last seven days for your states) is emailed to your checkout address within the hour; then every Monday at about 07:20 Eastern. Text email with the table attached as a single HTML file that opens in any browser and prints to PDF. Reply STOP to any issue to stop; the membership can also be cancelled from your Gumroad library.

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Sold by Steelyard Ventures LLC. The file attached to the Gumroad listing is the one-page “Read me first” note; the issues arrive by email. Who it is for: recruiters and staffing firms, outplacement and workforce-board staff, local reporters, union and benefits offices, anyone watching an employer.

Where the rows come from

California — the Employment Development Department’s WARN report workbook, “Detailed WARN Report” sheet (edd.ca.gov/en/jobs_and_training/Layoff_Services_WARN/). The workbook says it is updated every Tuesday and Thursday and covers the current reporting period.
Illinois — the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity’s monthly WARN workbooks (dceo.illinois.gov/workforcedevelopment/warn.html), the newest two months on every read; supplemental notices (amendments to earlier filings) are marked as such.
New York — the Department of Labor’s WARN Dashboard data export (dol.ny.gov/warn-dashboard). New York often posts a notice weeks after its notice date; an issue lists a notice the week the agency posts it and prints the notice date beside it.

Each agency file is checked against the exact column layout measured on 2026-09-03; if a state changes its layout the read fails and no issue goes out with guessed columns. One row per notice or per affected site, as the agency lists it. A notice is never sent to the same subscriber twice. The same rows, as one CSV for download, are the $19 WARN notices dataset; the same reader is public on the Apify Store as retrainmap/warn-notices.

If you were the one laid off

The free pages at /laid-off/ print, for every state, where the unemployment claim is filed, the weekly benefit floor and ceiling as the U.S. Department of Labor prints them, and the two 60-day health-coverage windows.