Indiana has filed 30 WARN notices so far in 2026, covering 4,319 reported workers, with the newest official notice dated October 29, 2026. That is a little quieter than 2025 (34 notices, 4,643 workers) but well above 2024 (38 notices, 3,175 workers).
These are reported plans, not confirmed job losses: a WARN notice is an employer's advance filing, and the number in it can change before the effective date.
The year in context
Over the last 12 months, Indiana has 36 official filings reporting 5,490 workers, with no counts unavailable. The longer archive tells a familiar story: 2020 dominates everything, with 160 notices covering 33,490 workers during the pandemic shock, and 2009 follows with 120 notices and 19,453 workers from the financial crisis. Every year since 2021 has stayed in a narrow band of roughly 2,100 to 5,300 workers. The full imported archive holds 1,182 non-cancelled Indiana notices reporting 150,841 workers, drawn from 1,018 direct government records and 164 attributed secondary reports.
The biggest filings of 2026
Two filings on a single day account for more than a quarter of the year's reported workers. On June 17, 2026, two Avon employers filed together: humano LLC, a freight transportation arranger, filed a closure covering 586 workers, and SIMOS Insourcing Solutions filed a layoff covering 572, both effective August 17, 2026. Together, 1,158 workers from one town on one day — the clear centre of gravity for Indiana's 2026 layoffs.
The rest of the year's large filings are spread across manufacturing towns:
- First Brands Group, Jasper — 345, closure, April 30, 2026.
- AAR Aircraft Services, Indianapolis — 329, closure, February 15, 2026.
- RESRG Automotive, Evansville — 266, closure, June 6, 2026.
- Dalton Corporation, Warsaw — 257, closure, February 27, 2026.
- American Woodmark Corporation, Gas City — 207, layoff, December 5, 2026.
- Thyssenkrupp Presta North America, Terre Haute — 207, closure, March 31, 2027.
- Postal Center International, Brownsburg — 151 workers, closure effective August 13, 2026; PMG Indiana, Columbus — 150, closure effective December 31, 2026; ZF Active Safety & Electronics, Lafayette — 133, closure effective November 30, 2026; Owens Corning, Walkerton — 130, closure effective September 19, 2026; Forest River, Bristol — 105, closure effective September 17, 2026.
Manufacturing dominates the list: auto parts, RVs, building products and plastics account for most of the large filings, which fits Indiana's economy — one of the most manufacturing-heavy states, so its notices tend to arrive as plant closures in factory towns rather than office layoffs in one city.
What is still to come
Six Indiana notices have future effective dates, covering 808 workers: ZF Active Safety in Lafayette (133, November 30), American Woodmark in Gas City (207, December 5), MPL Intermediate in Fairland (60, December 28), and a December 31 pair — PMG Indiana in Columbus (150) and Dexter Axle in Elkhart (51).
The most recent filing is Dexter Axle's, noticed October 29 — a 51-worker closure in Elkhart effective December 31. MPL Intermediate's 60-worker layoff in Fairland, noticed October 28, is the only other recent filing.
Indiana's rules: federal WARN only
Indiana has no separate state mini-WARN law, so the federal WARN Act is the governing standard. In practice that means employers with 100 or more full-time workers must give 60 days' written notice before a plant closure or a mass layoff of 50 or more workers. The Indiana Department of Workforce Development publishes the official WARN table, which runs back to 2008 and is the source for the company-level figures in this article.
Without a state law lowering the threshold, smaller layoffs — under 50 workers, or at employers under 100 workers — generally produce no WARN filing at all. The 30 notices in 2026 are a floor, not a census of every job cut in the state.
How Indiana fits nationally
Nationally, Layoff Atlas is tracking 665 notices covering 63,159 reported workers in the current 90-day window, with 30 counts unavailable. The week of November 24 is the heaviest on the calendar at 9,300 reported workers, followed by the weeks of November 17 (6,613) and November 10 (5,477). The weeks of December 1 (2,593) and December 8 (1,337) are much lighter, before a second bump in the week of December 15 (5,628). California and Washington dominate the national totals, with 20,982 and 17,411 reported workers respectively; Indiana sits well outside the top five.
What to watch
Three things matter for Indiana from here: whether any new notices arrive in November after the quiet since October 29; the December 5 American Woodmark layoff in Gas City, the largest single filing still ahead; and the March 2027 Thyssenkrupp closure in Terre Haute, the only 2026 filing that reaches into next year.
For workers at these employers: the notice date starts the clock, not the effective date; a WARN notice does not by itself determine severance, unemployment eligibility or health coverage; and the Indiana Department of Workforce Development's Rapid Response services are the first place to check for help with benefits and retraining.
Data source: Layoff Atlas. Figures from layoffatlas.com and the Indiana Department of Workforce Development WARN listing, current to November 10, 2026; 178 notices in the Indiana archive have unavailable worker counts and are excluded from the totals.
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