Leggett & Platt Files 145-Worker WARN Notice in Grayson, Kentucky, Effective December 21

Leggett & Platt has filed a WARN notice covering 145 workers in Grayson, Kentucky, with an effective date of December 21, 2026. The notice date is October 21, 2026, giving workers 61 days between the notice and the effective date — just over the 60 days the federal WARN Act generally requires.

It is the largest recent dated filing on the registry not already covered, and Kentucky's newest official notice.

The filing at a glance

The registry record lists the following facts:

• Employer: Leggett & Platt
• Location: Grayson, Kentucky
• Workers affected: 145
• Notice date: October 21, 2026
• Effective date: December 21, 2026
• Notice period: 61 days

A 61-day notice period matters because the WARN Act's general rule is 60 days' advance notice for a qualifying mass layoff or plant closing. This filing clears that bar by a single day. That is the first thing affected workers should check, since it sets the clock for unemployment claims, benefit decisions, and job searches.

The record does not, on its own, say whether this is a layoff, a closure, or a temporary shutdown, and it does not give a reason for the action. WARN records describe reported plans, not confirmed job losses, and filling in missing details from guesswork would mislead the very workers the record is meant to inform.

Kentucky in 2026

In 2026 so far, Kentucky has 35 notices reporting 3,041 workers. Over the last 365 days, the imported archive contains 45 eligible official filings reporting 6,504 workers, and the newest official notice date in that archive is October 21, 2026 — the same date as the Leggett & Platt notice.

The full Kentucky archive is larger: 875 non-cancelled imported notices reporting 112,572 workers, with 6 notices carrying future effective dates, mixing 103 direct government records with 772 attributed secondary records. The Leggett & Platt filing, by contrast, is a dated official record, easier to verify than the undated imports that make up a large share of recent additions nationally.

For scale, the 145 workers in this filing represent just under 5 percent of Kentucky's 2026 reported total of 3,041, in a state whose 2026 notices have averaged about 87 workers each — a meaningful share for one filing, but not a statewide wave on its own.

The national picture right now

Nationally, the registry's 90-day notice window currently holds 681 notices covering 65,682 reported workers, with 33 counts unavailable, last updated October 26, 2026. The top states in that window are Washington (17,073), California (14,001), Illinois (4,626), Texas (3,652), and Ohio (3,180).

The upcoming effective weeks are unusually flat and still heavy: 5,503 workers in the week of October 26, 5,061 in the week of November 2, 6,568 in the week of November 9, 6,145 in the week of November 16, 6,120 in the week of November 23, and 5,592 in the week of November 30 — a six-week total of 34,989. The Leggett & Platt effective date of December 21 falls just after that stretch, when several other December effective dates are already clustered.

December effective dates have been accumulating across states, including December 20 and December 31 filings covered in recent weeks.

How to read this number

Three cautions apply to the 145-worker figure, and to every WARN figure in this article.

First, these are reported plans, not confirmed job losses. A WARN notice is an advance notification of a planned action. Plans can change: effective dates can move, counts can be revised, and planned layoffs can be reduced or cancelled. Until the effective date passes, the number is a plan on paper.

Second, WARN coverage is not a census of layoffs. The law applies only to employers and actions that meet its thresholds — generally 100 or more full-time employees, and layoffs of 50 or more workers meeting additional tests, or plant closings. Smaller layoffs often never generate a WARN notice at all, so a state with few WARN notices is not necessarily a state with few layoffs.

Third, worker totals exclude unavailable counts. The national window already carries 33 records with no worker count, and Kentucky's full archive carries 52. Every total here is therefore a floor based on what was reported, not a complete count.

What comes next for affected workers

For the 145 workers in Grayson, the practical next steps are the same as after any WARN filing: confirm the details with the employer and the state dislocated worker unit, contact the state's Rapid Response team for free help with unemployment claims and benefits questions, and keep the notice itself as the reference point if the plan changes.

Workers should also watch for updates. If the effective date moves by less than 60 days, the employer must give additional notice as soon as practicable, referencing the earlier notice and the new date; a move of 60 days or more is treated as a new notice.

For now, the Leggett & Platt filing stands as Kentucky's newest official notice — 145 workers, 61 days' notice, effective December 21 — and as a reminder that even in a flat, heavy layoff calendar, individual filings still carry real weight for the communities they touch.

Data source: Layoff Atlas