Delaware Layoffs November 2026: WARN Numbers Explained

Delaware is one of the quietest states in the national WARN record — and one of the hardest to read. The state's imported archive holds 100 non-cancelled WARN notices covering 15,355 reported workers, but only three of those notices arrived in 2026, none of them has a future effective date, and not a single one comes from an official government feed. Every Delaware record in the archive is an attributed secondary report.

Those numbers need context before anyone draws conclusions from them.

The national picture first

Across the United States, Layoff Atlas currently tracks 661 WARN notices covering 62,751 reported workers in the 90-day window, with 30 notices whose worker counts are unavailable. The data was last updated on November 10, 2026.

California (20,862 workers) and Washington (17,387) dominate the national total, followed by Illinois (3,432), Virginia (2,556), and Maryland (2,484). Delaware's 174 workers in 2026 amount to roughly 0.3% of the national 90-day worker total — a small share even for a small state, and a reflection of how few filings the state has produced this year.

The coming weeks are uneven nationally. The week starting November 11 carries 6,146 scheduled workers, November 18 carries 5,939, and the week of November 25 is the heaviest on the calendar at 9,858. The following three weeks drop sharply — 1,990, then 1,746, then 5,491 in the week of December 16 — for a six-week total of 31,170 workers.

Delaware in 2026: three filings, 174 workers

All three of Delaware's 2026 notices arrived between April and August, and none has a scheduled effective date in the future:

• JeniusBank — 106 workers, notice dated August 10, 2026. The filing is recorded against a New York address, a reminder that multi-state employers can appear in a state's record without a Delaware worksite.
• Atlas Hospitality Group — 67 workers, notice dated April 30, 2026, recorded against a Baltimore address.
• Conduent — 1 worker, notice dated June 29, 2026, recorded against a Florham Park, New Jersey address.

The average 2026 filing covers about 58 workers, but with only three filings that average is fragile. 2025 produced just two notices covering 153 workers (Harrington Logistics, 151, and Quality Built, 2), so Delaware has now gone two consecutive years with almost no WARN activity in the archive.

The longer history: two spikes, long quiet stretches

Delaware's archive stretches back to 2007, and its shape is lumpy. The two biggest years are the ones you'd expect: 2020, with 24 notices covering 3,738 workers, and 2009, with 25 notices covering 2,516 workers. Together those two crisis years account for about 41% of all workers in the state's archive.

The 2020 filings read like a snapshot of the pandemic economy in a small state: Aramark at the University of Delaware (554 workers), Dentsply Sirona (313), Clarios' Middletown facility (229), GE Aviation (194), Grotto's Pizza (165), and Sallie Mae (100). Hospitality, food service, and university-linked employers dominate the list.

Outside the crisis years, Delaware's numbers are modest. 2015 produced five notices covering 2,189 workers, 2013 produced three covering 1,670, and 2017 produced seven covering 746. Several years — including 2024, which has no notices in the archive at all — are effectively blank.

The official-data gap is the real story

The most important number on Delaware's page may be zero: zero eligible official filings in the last 365 days, and zero direct government records in the entire archive. All 100 notices are attributed secondary records, and 11 of them have unavailable worker counts.

That does not mean Delaware had no layoffs. It means the state's official WARN feed is not connected to this registry, so the archive is built from secondary reports — and secondary coverage of a small state is patchy by nature. A state with a connected official feed, like Washington or California, shows hundreds of filings; Delaware shows what secondary sources happened to pick up.

For anyone using these numbers, the consequences are straightforward. First, Delaware's totals are a floor, not a census: missing source coverage is not zero layoffs. Second, year-to-year comparisons within Delaware are more reliable than comparisons against states with full official feeds, because the coverage gap is roughly constant. And third, the absence of future effective dates — zero in the archive — says nothing about whether Delaware employers are planning layoffs; it says the registry has no upcoming Delaware dates to show.

What Delaware workers should know

Delaware has no state mini-WARN law, so the federal WARN Act is the rule that applies: employers with 100 or more full-time workers must give 60 days' written notice before a qualifying mass layoff or plant closure. Workers who receive a notice should check the effective date, confirm whether severance or benefits continuation is offered, and file for unemployment promptly — a WARN notice itself is a report of a planned action, not a confirmation that every listed job will be lost, and these are reported plans, not confirmed job losses.

The quiet 2026 is, on its own terms, good news for Delaware workers: three filings and 174 reported workers is the lightest activity the state has seen in years. Whether that quiet reflects a genuinely stable labor market or simply thin secondary coverage is a question only a connected official feed could settle.

Data source: Layoff Atlas