Quince & Co Files a 34-Worker Temporary Layoff Notice in San Francisco

Quince & Co, LLC has filed a WARN notice covering 34 workers at its San Francisco site, with a planned effective date of January 16, 2027. The notice was filed with the California Employment Development Department on November 3, 2026, giving workers 74 days of advance warning — above the 60-day minimum in both the federal WARN Act and California's own notice law.

The filing is listed as a temporary layoff, not a permanent closure. That distinction matters: a temporary layoff is one the employer expects to end, with workers returning. But the registry record gives no return date and no reason for the layoff, so the 34 workers named in the filing know when the layoff starts, not when — or whether — it ends.

The filing at a glance

• Employer: Quince & Co, LLC
• Workers: 34
• Site: 490 Pacific Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133
• Notice date: November 3, 2026
• Effective date: January 16, 2027
• Type: Temporary layoff
• Source: California Employment Development Department, via Layoff Atlas

What "temporary" means under WARN

Under the federal WARN Act, a layoff only counts as an "employment loss" — the kind that triggers the 60-day notice requirement — if it is expected to last more than six months. A shorter layoff is generally not a WARN event at all, which is why temporary layoffs often arrive with no filing. When an employer files anyway, it is usually caution: if the layoff runs longer than expected, the notice is already on record.

That caution cuts both ways for workers. A temporary filing is not a promise of recall. If business does not recover, a temporary layoff can be extended, converted to a permanent one, or followed by a second notice. Workers should treat the effective date as real — January 16 is when the layoff is planned to begin — and treat the "temporary" label as the employer's current expectation, not a guarantee.

California's own law, Cal-WARN, follows the same 60-day notice standard and applies to employers with 75 or more full-time or part-time employees. The registry record does not state Quince & Co's total headcount, so whether either law strictly required this notice cannot be read off the filing alone. What the filing does show is that the company gave 74 days — two weeks more than the floor.

The January 16 date

January 16 is, for now, a quiet date on the 2027 layoff calendar. Among the California filings in the registry, it holds just this one notice so far. The surrounding dates are busier: January 2 holds 241 workers across two filings, January 4 holds 168 across four, and January 31 holds a 94-worker Amazon filing in La Puente. A 119-worker Comcast filing in New Jersey is set for January 27. Taken together, the January filings already on the books show a calendar that fills in from the edges — early-month dates first — while most of the month is still blank. More filings with January dates are likely to arrive before the year ends, since employers file through November and December for January effective dates.

California in the national picture

California reported 1,254 WARN notices covering 68,531 workers so far in 2026, out of an archive of 17,682 notices and 1,460,358 workers. One hundred sixty-nine California notices have future effective dates, and the newest official notice date in the state archive is November 4, 2026.

Nationally, the registry's 90-day window holds 706 notices reporting 65,134 workers, with 31 worker counts unavailable. California leads with 21,514 reported workers, followed by Washington with 17,411, Illinois with 3,548, Texas with 2,750, and Virginia with 2,546. The six upcoming effective weeks carry 30,498 reported workers, with the week of November 14 the heaviest at 8,510.

What to watch next

Three things matter next. First, whether a return date appears: a recall date would turn this from an open-ended layoff into a bounded one. Second, whether the filing is amended — extended, converted to permanent, or withdrawn — since WARN plans change and the registry updates as they do. Third, the January cluster itself: as more January filings arrive, January 16 may stop being a one-filing date.

For the 34 workers, the practical point is the calendar. Seventy-four days is more warning than the law requires, and it is time to use: confirm the layoff's terms in writing, check health coverage options, and confirm unemployment benefit eligibility before the effective date arrives.

These are reported plans, not confirmed job losses. A WARN notice records what an employer has told the state it intends to do. Plans can change, dates can move, and the final number of people affected can end up smaller or larger than the figure in the filing.

Data source: Layoff Atlas.