Maryland Layoffs November 2026: WARN Numbers Explained

Maryland sits fifth in the country for reported layoff workers in the current WARN window, with 2,475 workers across recent filings — behind California (21,514), Washington (17,411), Illinois (3,432), and Texas (2,750). The story behind the ranking is a single very large filing, a steady flow of mid-size notices, and one of the cleanest official records in the registry.

The headline numbers

Maryland's imported WARN archive holds 1,434 non-cancelled notices reporting 118,071 workers. In 2026 so far, the state has recorded 120 notices covering 8,364 reported workers — an average of about 70 workers per filing.

The official record is unusually complete. Over the last 365 days, Maryland's archive contains 143 eligible official filings reporting 9,922 workers, with zero worker counts unavailable among them. The newest official notice is dated November 3, 2026. Of the full archive, 1,424 records come directly from government sources and only 10 are attributed secondary records. That makes Maryland one of the most directly sourced state pages in the registry — the numbers here are, for the most part, the state's own filings, not press reports.

Nineteen Maryland notices have future effective dates, so more of the 2026 total is still to come.

The largest filings

Six filings dominate Maryland's recent picture:

• Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream, Howard County — 803 workers, temporary, effective December 20, 2026. Filed October 19, this is the largest Maryland filing of the year by a wide margin, and it alone accounts for nearly 10% of all workers Maryland reported in 2026.
• Aramark Campus, Baltimore — 174 workers, layoff, effective November 1, 2026. Filed October 1.
• CB Manufacturing, Prince George's County — 143 workers, layoff, effective November 13, 2026. Filed September 14.
• ThriftBooks Global, Baltimore — 136 workers, closure, effective October 31, 2026. Filed August 31.
• A&G Management, Anne Arundel County — 120 workers, layoff, effective January 3, 2027. Filed November 3 — the newest official notice on the Maryland page.
• Pharmaceutics International (a Jabil company), Hunt Valley — 94 workers, layoff, effective December 29, 2026. Filed October 30.

Together, the top six filings account for 1,470 workers — about 18% of Maryland's 2026 reported total. The rest is spread across dozens of smaller notices: Goetze's Candy (46 workers, temporary, effective Christmas Eve) and True Food Kitchen (41, closure).

The year-by-year picture

Maryland's 2026 pace is running below 2025. Last year brought 151 notices and 12,182 workers; this year, with about seven weeks left, stands at 120 notices and 8,364 workers. The recent history:

• 2025: 151 notices, 12,182 workers
• 2024: 84 notices, 7,309 workers
• 2023: 75 notices, 5,632 workers
• 2022: 89 notices, 7,022 workers
• 2021: 42 notices, 2,573 workers
• 2020: 378 notices, 28,946 workers — the pandemic spike, more than triple any other year in the archive

The 2020 figure is a reminder of scale: that single year reported more workers than 2021 through 2024 combined. Maryland's 2026, by contrast, looks like an ordinary year — no single shock beyond Dreyer's, and nothing like the 2020 wave.

Maryland in the national picture

Nationally, the registry currently shows 694 notices and 64,044 reported workers in the 90-day window, with 30 counts unavailable. Maryland's 2,475 workers are about 4% of that total. The top five states together — California, Washington, Illinois, Texas, and Maryland — account for roughly 74% of all reported workers, so the national picture is heavily concentrated at the top.

Across the country, 6,473 workers are scheduled effective in the week of November 9, followed by 6,202 in the week of November 16, 6,207 in the week of November 23, and 5,916 in the week of November 30. December 7 is a quiet week at 898 workers, then 6,274 in the week of December 14. The six-week total of 31,970 workers is about half of everything in the current 90-day window.

Maryland's own contribution to that calendar is concentrated in December. Dreyer's 803 workers take effect December 20, Pharmaceutics International's 94 on December 29, and A&G Management's 120 on January 3. Goetze's 46 temporary workers are effective December 24.

How to read Maryland's numbers

A few things to keep in mind. First, these are reported plans, not confirmed job losses — a WARN notice records what an employer told the state it intends to do, and plans can change. Second, 42 notices in Maryland's full archive have no worker count, so the totals exclude them entirely. Third, Maryland has its own mini-WARN law, which covers smaller employers than the federal WARN Act — so the state's filings capture layoffs the federal law alone would miss. And fourth, the archive contains occasional duplicate rows for the same filing, so the notice count is best read as approximate while the worker totals, built from the state's own filings, are the more reliable figure.

What stands out for Maryland in November is not a surge but a profile: a clean, mostly official record, a normal year by historical standards, and one outsized temporary filing — Dreyer's — doing most of the work in the headline total. Without it, Maryland's 2026 total would be 7,561 workers.

Data source: Layoff Atlas.