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WARN applies only to employers with 100 or more employees, only when 50 or more people lose their jobs at one site, and it carries three exceptions that shorten the notice. When an employer breaks it, the remedy is back pay capped at 60 days. Who the rule actually reaches.
The August jobs report was read for its payroll figure and its unchanged unemployment rate. The largest single move in it was somewhere else, in the count of people working part time who wanted full-time work.
Consumer products announced 10,057 cuts in August and food producers 7,982. Technology announced 6,103, its quietest month of 2026. One month does not make a rotation, but the year-to-date numbers show which of the three is actually trending.
Payrolls rose 162,000 and unemployment held at 4.1 percent, down from 4.3 percent a year ago. The group jobless 27 weeks or more is unchanged at about 1.93 million, so it now makes up 27.0 percent of the unemployed. The year's improvement happened entirely at the front of the queue.
July's JOLTS report shows 7.3 million open jobs, slightly more than July 2019, and 5.1 million hires, 900,000 fewer. The openings number gets quoted. The hiring number decides how long you are out of work.
Bloomberg reported Apple cut more than 200 jobs across its Vision Pro gaming, immersive video and Siri teams — a company that has spent a decade being the tech industry's exception to the layoff cycle. The teams it protected say more than the teams it cut.
The weekly benefit amount is the number everyone checks. The number of weeks you get it is the one that decides whether unemployment actually covers a real job search, and it varies by more than double between states.
Thursday's Labor Department release counted 203,000 new claims and 1.78 million people drawing benefits. The Bureau of Labor Statistics counts 6.9 million people unemployed. The gap between those two numbers is the part that matters to you.
Employers announced fewer cuts in July than in any month since 2024, and weekly unemployment claims are running below last year's. The economy still lost jobs. Here is where they went.
Newsom's four-day return-to-office order took effect July 1 over union objections — and the state it out-toughened is the one that already reversed course.
Morgan McKinley's 2026 Workplace Trends Report finds the 'job hugging' era ending, and the reason is sitting in plain sight in this year's pay data.
LinkedIn's latest study names the fastest-growing entry-level job in America for the second year running, and the workers landing it are not who you'd guess.
August brought cuts at Zillow, TikTok, Etsy and Google, and pushed 2026's layoff count past a line no one expected to see before September.