Mississippi Layoffs 2026: WARN Numbers Explained

Mississippi's 2026 layoff record is small in count and concentrated in impact. Layoff Atlas records 11 Mississippi WARN notices dated in 2026, covering 1,745 reported workers — and just two closures, in Verona and Greenwood, account for 866 of those workers, almost exactly half the state's total.

What Mississippi's archive contains

Across its full imported history, Mississippi has 220 non-cancelled WARN notices reporting 24,781 workers affected. The archive mixes 99 direct government records with 121 attributed secondary reports, and only 7 notices have unavailable worker counts. In the last 365 days, it contains 11 eligible official filings reporting 1,830 affected workers, with no unavailable counts among them.

The year-by-year history puts 2026 in context:

• 2022: 50 notices · 7,042 reported workers
• 2023: 43 notices · 4,837 reported workers
• 2024: 23 notices · 2,571 reported workers
• 2025: 31 notices · 2,791 reported workers
• 2026 (so far): 11 notices · 1,745 reported workers

By both measures, 2026 is running well below the state's recent years. Every figure here needs the same caveat: WARN filings are reported plans, not confirmed job losses. A notice records what an employer told the state it intends to do, and plans can be amended, reduced, delayed, or withdrawn after filing.

The largest Mississippi filings of 2026

Two closures dominate the year, followed by a tail of mid-sized actions spread across manufacturing, health care, and logistics:

• Stanley Black & Decker, Verona — 441 workers, a closure filed February 20, 2026; the effective date is unavailable in the record. The largest single Mississippi filing of the year.
• Greenwood Leflore Hospital, Greenwood — 425 workers, a closure effective June 15, 2026, filed April 14.
• GXO Logistics, Southaven — 220 workers, a closure effective January 31, 2026, filed January 6.
• NIKE Retail Services, Byhalia — 193 workers, a layoff filed January 26, 2026, with the effective date unavailable.
• Regency Hospital, Meridian — 102 workers, a closure effective February 11, 2026, filed the same day.
• Leggett & Platt Flooring Products, Houston — 86 workers, a closure effective June 11, 2026, filed May 11 — the newest official Mississippi notice in the archive.
• New Way Trucks, Booneville — 86 workers, a layoff effective May 30, 2026.
• Amplify Cell Technologies, Byhalia — 73 workers, a layoff effective May 30, 2026.
• Laboratory Corporation of America, Southaven — 60 workers, a closure effective June 9, 2026.
• Wheeler Fleet Solutions, Olive Branch — 52 workers, a closure filed April 30, 2026.

Two patterns stand out. First, closures, not temporary layoffs, drive the list — most of the largest filings end a site rather than trim it. Second, the geography clusters in the north: Southaven, Olive Branch, and Byhalia, all in the Memphis-area logistics corridor, appear repeatedly, alongside smaller industrial towns such as Verona, Booneville, and Houston. These are still reported plans, not confirmed job losses, but closures are the category least likely to be quietly reversed.

The quiet since May — and how to read it

Mississippi has 0 notices with future effective dates, and its newest official notice is dated May 11, 2026. On the states index, Mississippi's official source — the state employment security agency at mdes.ms.gov — is listed as connected, with a source check on October 11, 2026. So the five-month gap is probably not a broken feed. It more likely means no new qualifying filings have been published — though WARN coverage is never a census of layoffs. Smaller actions below the federal thresholds, generally 50 workers in a plant closing or 50 to 499 workers making up at least a third of a site's workforce in a mass layoff, never generate a notice at all.

How Mississippi compares nationally

Nationally, Layoff Atlas currently tracks 738 notices covering 68,093 reported workers in its 90-day window, with 31 notices carrying unavailable worker counts. The top states are Washington (16,776 reported workers), California (16,011), Illinois (4,772), Texas (3,842), and Ohio (3,224). The national calendar ahead is also far heavier than Mississippi's: 5,802 reported workers for the week of October 25, 5,260 for November 8, and 7,644 for November 15, currently the heaviest upcoming week. Those national figures, like Mississippi's, are reported plans, not confirmed job losses.

What Mississippi workers should take from a filing

If your employer appears on this list, the notice date and effective date mark your window. Federal WARN generally requires covered employers to give 60 days' notice before a qualifying closing or mass layoff, and that window is the time to confirm unemployment insurance eligibility through the Mississippi Department of Employment Security, review health-coverage continuation options, and start a job search while still employed.

The bottom line

Mississippi's 2026 WARN picture is 11 notices, 1,745 reported workers, two very large closures in Verona and Greenwood, a logistics-corridor cluster in the north, and then five months of silence from a source that appears to be working. Read the numbers as reported plans, not confirmed job losses — and read the silence the same way: as an absence of large announced layoffs, not proof that nothing smaller is happening.

Data source: Layoff Atlas