Alaska Layoffs 2026: WARN Numbers Explained

Alaska's official WARN record is thin compared to most states. The state's archive holds 66 non-cancelled WARN notices covering 9,308 reported workers, stretching back to 2006. But almost none of that activity is recent: only one official filing has arrived in the last 365 days, covering 160 workers — and no Alaska notice in the archive has a future effective date, so no upcoming Alaska layoffs are currently visible in the data.

These are reported plans, not confirmed job losses. WARN notices are advance notifications of qualifying mass layoffs and plant closures, filed with state labor agencies. Worker totals exclude notices where the count was unavailable, and the figures below cover imported records only.

The only 2026 filing so far

Alaska's single 2026 WARN filing came from RNDC Shared Services LLC, reporting 160 affected workers in Juneau. The notice was dated July 6, 2026, with a planned effective date of September 4, 2026 — meaning the event is already in the past.

RNDC Shared Services appears in exactly one Alaska WARN record, so this is a one-off filing rather than a pattern of recurring notices. (Company names in the data are grouped from the raw employer names on filings; the grouping does not establish corporate ownership.)

What the longer record shows

Alaska's WARN history is dominated by a single extraordinary year:

• 2026: 1 notice · 160 reported workers
• 2025: 2 notices · 182 reported workers
• 2024: 1 notice · 0 reported workers
• 2023: 4 notices · 128 reported workers
• 2022: 1 notice · 182 reported workers
• 2021: 4 notices · 418 reported workers
• 2020: 21 notices · 3,673 reported workers
• 2019: 4 notices · 965 reported workers
• 2018: 7 notices · 1,028 reported workers
• 2017: 4 notices · 513 reported workers
• 2016: 4 notices · 356 reported workers
• 2015: 1 notice · 134 reported workers

The 2020 spike — 21 notices covering 3,673 workers, the COVID-era wave — accounts for roughly 39% of all workers in the entire Alaska archive. In ordinary years the state records just a handful of notices; 2015, 2022, and 2024 each had a single filing.

That quietness partly reflects the law itself. Under the federal WARN Act, advance notice is generally required only for mass layoffs affecting 100 or more workers at a single site (or plant closures affecting 50 or more). Alaska does not operate a lower state threshold, so smaller rounds of cuts never enter the WARN record. Workers affected by smaller layoffs can check with the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development about state-level protections.

Source caveats worth knowing

Alaska's source is rated PARTIAL by Layoff Atlas's source-health tracking. The WARN feed was checked on October 7, 2026, but the provider snapshot feeding it dates to September 25, 2026 and is marked stale — so a successful check does not guarantee new data arrived. Four notices in the archive have unavailable worker counts, which means the 9,308-worker total slightly understates the true reported figure. Coverage runs from February 2006 through July 6, 2026.

As always with this dataset: coverage is not a census of layoffs. Missing source coverage is not zero layoffs, and these figures describe notices — not unique people, and not completed layoffs.

Alaska in the national picture

Nationwide, the 90-day WARN window currently holds 700 notices covering 65,125 reported workers. The heaviest upcoming weeks are October 30 (8,520 workers) and November 13 (8,556 workers), and the top states by reported workers are Washington (16,722), California (14,659), Illinois (4,626), Texas (3,784), and Ohio (3,180). Alaska sits far outside that national picture — one filing, 160 workers, no upcoming events on the books.

Data source: Layoff Atlas