Datasets:

APProjects
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kentucky-layoffs-warn-act-notices-daily

---
pretty_name: Kentucky WARN Act layoff notices — every filing since 1998, rebuilt daily
license: cc-by-4.0
language:
  - en
task_categories:
  - tabular-classification
  - time-series-forecasting
tags:
  - kentucky
  - layoffs
  - warn-act
  - warn-notices
  - layoff-notices
  - plant-closings
  - kentucky-layoffs
  - employment
  - labor-market
  - economics
  - public-records
  - government-data
  - daily-updated
  - united-states
  - hr
  - recruiting
  - tabular
size_categories:
  - n<1K
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files: data/ky_warn_notices.csv
---

# Kentucky WARN Act layoff notices — every filing we hold since 1998, one CSV, rebuilt daily

**805 Kentucky WARN notices** — every one this dataset holds, back to **1998** — free to download in full: no paywalled years, no login, no account · most recent notice filed **2026-09-10**
· state source last checked **2026-09-18T12:25Z**.

Kentucky employers must file a WARN Act notice with the state before a qualifying
mass layoff or plant closing. This page is generated from those filings, cleaned
into one schema shared with 47 other states, and rebuilt every day. Nothing here
is behind a login.

> **The data above is free forever** — CC BY 4.0, no login, no API key, no delay, rebuilt daily.
>
> If you only care about *particular* employers or states, you do not have to re-download the whole file and diff it yourself. **WARN Watch** runs your list against every daily refresh and gives you a private alert page, a calendar (.ics), an RSS feed and an optional Slack/Discord/Teams webhook — no login.
>
> **[Try it free for 30 days — no card](https://approj.gumroad.com/l/warn-free-watch)** (up to 3 employers or one state) · then **$49/year**, one-off, no auto-renew, 14-day refund · [see a real alert page first](https://approjects-warn-act-notices.static.hf.space/watch-sample.html)


## Download Kentucky layoff data

The file in this repository, `data/ky_warn_notices.csv`, is byte-identical to the free per-state file on GitHub linked below; the other files are the all-state siblings.

| What | File |
| --- | --- |
| Kentucky notices, all years (CSV, free) | [`data/by-state/ky.csv`](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/APVentureEngine/warn-act-notices/main/data/by-state/ky.csv) |
| All 48 states, all years (CSV, free) | [`data/warn_notices.csv`](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/APVentureEngine/warn-act-notices/main/data/warn_notices.csv) |
| All 48 states (JSON, free) | [`data/latest.json`](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/APVentureEngine/warn-act-notices/main/data/latest.json) |
| Kentucky RSS feed | [`feeds/kentucky.xml`](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/APVentureEngine/warn-act-notices/main/feeds/kentucky.xml) |
| Notice-period analysis, every state × year | [`data/notice_period_by_state_year.csv`](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/APVentureEngine/warn-act-notices/main/data/notice_period_by_state_year.csv) |
| Browsable page with search and charts | [Kentucky on the live site](https://approjects-warn-act-notices.static.hf.space/states/kentucky.html) |
| Same data on Hugging Face | [APProjects/us-warn-act-layoffs-notices-daily](https://huggingface.co/datasets/APProjects/us-warn-act-layoffs-notices-daily) |

Licence: **CC BY 4.0** — use it commercially, just credit the source.

## Most recent Kentucky notices

| Employer | Location | Employees | Notice filed | Effective |
| --- | --- | --- | ---: | --- |
| PARSONS CORPORATION | Madison | 2 | 2026-09-10 | 2026-11-19 |
| Congo Brands (Alani, Prime, 3D Energy) | Jefferson | 15 | 2026-09-04 | 2026-11-04 |
| SMBC Manubank | Out of the State County | 1 | 2026-08-10 | 2026-10-09 |
| 80 Acres Farm | Boone | 127 | 2026-08-03 | 2026-08-03 |
| Battelle Memorial Institute E3 | Madison | 1 | 2026-07-23 | 2026-09-24 |
| Geodis | Boone | 73 | 2026-07-10 | 2026-09-08 |
| Levi Strauss & Co | Boone | 303 | 2026-06-30 | 2026-08-30 |
| Conduent (Corporate) | Jefferson County - Louisville | 24 | 2026-06-29 | 2026-08-28 |
| Congo Brands (Alani, Prime, 3D Energy) | Jefferson | 28 | 2026-06-26 | 2026-08-26 |
| RNDC of Kentucky, LLC | Jefferson County - Louisville | 174 | 2026-06-18 | 2026-08-17 |
| Vestis | Fayette | 32 | 2026-06-16 | 2026-08-15 |
| Carrier Corporation (Franklin Operation) | Simpson | 70 | 2026-06-12 | 2026-08-30 |

Newest 12 of 805 free-window Kentucky notices.
The complete file is the CSV above — every notice we hold for this state,
back to 1988, free and rebuilt daily.

## Employers that have filed the most Kentucky WARN notices

104 employers have filed two or more Kentucky notices. The 25 most
frequent filers, rolled up on the normalized employer name (`company_canonical`),
with every notice counted from the free file above. "Workers affected" sums the
headcount on the notices that state one; it is a floor, not an estimate.

| Employer | Notices | Workers affected | First notice | Latest notice |
| --- | ---: | ---: | --- | --- |
| ArvinMeritor | 15 | 849 | 2009-05-15 | 2010-01-29 |
| Kuhlman Elctric | 12 | 105 | 2009-03-09 | 2009-10-15 |
| Sykes Enterprises | 7 | 979 | 2004-02-10 | 2012-02-21 |
| IPSCO Tubulars, (KY) | 7 | 469 | 2015-04-13 | 2016-01-13 |
| Motorola Solutions | 6 | 256 | 2013-05-21 | 2014-01-09 |
| Battelle Memorial Institute E3 | 6 | 116 | 2025-12-17 | 2026-07-23 |
| Comair | 5 | 3,223 | 2001-05-21 | 2012-10-15 |
| Gecom | 5 | 560 | 2009-01-29 | 2013-10-02 |
| Carhartt | 5 | 337 | 2006-01-18 | 2009-12-07 |
| Century Aluminum of Kentucky GP "Hawesville Smelter | 4 | 2,058 | 2013-04-16 | 2013-12-17 |
| Jockey International | 4 | 756 | 1999-11-03 | 2004-03-02 |
| United State Enrichment Corporation (USEC) | 4 | 410 | 2013-05-31 | 2013-12-17 |
| Leggett & Platt | 4 | 379 | 2008-10-15 | 2013-01-08 |
| Brake Parts | 4 | 177 | 1999-04-13 | 2015-05-28 |
| Martinrea Heavy Stamping | 4 | 113 | 2008-11-07 | 2009-01-12 |
| Parsons | 4 | 84 | 2025-12-15 | 2026-09-10 |
| CSC | 4 | 61 | 2010-04-30 | 2012-09-04 |
| Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems | 3 | 1,932 | 2001-11-30 | 2001-12-03 |
| Tecumseh Products | 3 | 1,234 | 1998-10-02 | 2000-01-25 |
| American Greetings | 3 | 1,148 | 2000-10-09 | 2001-06-20 |
| Lexmark International | 3 | 868 | 2001-02-20 | 2016-03-23 |
| United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC) | 3 | 820 | 2014-02-20 | 2014-07-31 |
| Accuride | 3 | 546 | 1999-09-03 | 2002-01-11 |
| Sapphire Coal Company - Advantage Mine Site | 3 | 489 | 2012-06-07 | 2012-07-12 |
| CSX Transportation | 3 | 424 | 2000-08-08 | 2015-10-20 |

## Largest single Kentucky WARN notices on file

The 10 biggest Kentucky notices by employees affected, out of
756 notices that state a headcount.

| Employer | Location | Employees | Notice filed | Effective |
| --- | --- | ---: | --- | --- |
| Comair, Inc. | Kenton | 1,662 | 2001-05-21 | — |
| Blue Oval SK Group/Battery Plant | Hardin | 1,514 | 2025-12-16 | 2026-03-31 |
| Comair | — | 1,194 | 2012-07-30 | — |
| Mattel-Murray | Calloway | 980 | 2001-04-06 | — |
| Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems, Inc. | Warren, Butler, Metcalfe | 926 | 2001-11-30 | 2002-02-01 |
| Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems, Inc. | Butler & Metcalfe | 926 | 2001-12-03 | — |
| Aramark Campus, LLC (University of Kentucky) | Fayette | 923 | 2026-04-29 | 2026-06-30 |
| Continental Tire North America Incorporated Mayfield Plant | Graves | 915 | 2004-07-02 | — |
| Regional Elite Airline Services | — | 839 | 2010-03-17 | 2010-05-18 |
| Ford Motor Company Louisville Assembly Plant | — | 756 | 2008-05-23 | 2008-07-21 |

## How much notice did Kentucky workers actually get?

Of the **493** Kentucky notices in the full archive that carry both a notice date and an effective date, **220** (**44.6%**) span fewer than 60 days.

| Year | Notices with both dates | Under 60 days | Share |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| 2026 | 31 | 8 | 25.8% |
| 2025 | 4 | 1 | _n<30_ |
| 2016 | 42 | 20 | 47.6% |
| 2015 | 71 | 38 | 53.5% |
| 2014 | 26 | 13 | _n<30_ |
| 2013 | 45 | 16 | 35.6% |
| 2012 | 53 | 24 | 45.3% |
| 2011 | 27 | 13 | _n<30_ |
| 2010 | 37 | 17 | 45.9% |
| 2009 | 73 | 34 | 46.6% |
| 2008 | 54 | 24 | 44.4% |
| 2007 | 9 | 1 | _n<30_ |
| 2006 | 9 | 5 | _n<30_ |
| 2005 | 5 | 5 | _n<30_ |

**Read this before quoting the notice-period numbers.** Several states publish the date *the state received* the filing rather than the date workers were notified, so an interval a little under 60 days is frequently state processing lag rather than a short notice. That is why this dataset publishes state-level and year-level shares and **never** ranks named employers by notice length.

Method and exclusions: [notice-period analysis](https://approjects-warn-act-notices.static.hf.space/notice-period.html).

## Track Kentucky layoffs without polling this file

- **[Star the repo](https://github.com/APVentureEngine/warn-act-notices)** or [watch releases](https://github.com/APVentureEngine/warn-act-notices/subscription) — GitHub tells you
  each day the snapshot republishes.
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- **[Full 1988→ archive — free](https://github.com/APVentureEngine/warn-act-notices/releases/latest)** — every state, every year,
  one schema.

Something wrong in a Kentucky row? [Open an issue](https://github.com/APVentureEngine/warn-act-notices/issues) — it gets fixed the
same day.

---

[← all states](https://github.com/APVentureEngine/warn-act-notices/blob/main/states/README.md) ·
[repository home](https://github.com/APVentureEngine/warn-act-notices) · data as of 2026-09-19 · rebuilt daily by an automated pipeline.

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## A layoff record you can audit, not just download

This dataset is one cut of a single daily rebuild: **61,345 US WARN Act
layoff notices from 48 state agencies, 1988 to today**, one schema, no
login, no delay, CC BY 4.0. Snapshot as of **2026-09-19**; the files above are
rebuilt every day, so the live count is the truth.

Several projects publish a current WARN scrape and two of them carry more rows
than we do. None of them publish what the records **used to say**:

- **638 observed changes to already-published notices, logged daily since 2026-08-31.**
  `data/revisions.csv` records every field that differed between two consecutive
  daily builds — employee counts, effective dates, notice types, company names —
  with the old value, the new value and the date we saw it. We publish the
  observation and not the cause: a change is equally explained by the agency
  amending the notice or by our own parser improving, and we do not guess which
  (see `data/revisions.README.txt`). A scrape that starts tomorrow cannot backfill
  any of it; it only exists if someone was watching.
- **6,799 notices whose state agency page no longer lists them.** Agencies
  take notices down. We keep them, flagged as archive-only, so a count you ran
  last year still reconciles.
- **Point-in-time employer identity.** The ticker crosswalk resolves a filer to
  the company as it existed at the time of the notice — Kmart, Sears Holdings,
  Symantec — not to whatever is on today's ticker file.

If you have to defend a number to an editor, a referee or a compliance reviewer,
that provenance layer is the part you cannot rebuild yourself.
[How to cite this dataset →](https://github.com/APVentureEngine/warn-act-notices/blob/main/CITATION.cff)

**Look something up right now — free, no signup, nothing to install.**
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**Backtesting, or citing a figure you published last month?** Today's file has
look-ahead and survivorship bias baked in: notices get amended after the fact and
some rows are later deleted. The same table as it stood on any past day since
**2026-08-30** — one immutable vintage per day, 20 so far, plus a first-appearance
index giving the first and last day every notice id was in the file — is the
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**Need one industry only?** The same filings, cut by an auditable employer-name
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· [hospitals & healthcare](https://huggingface.co/datasets/APProjects/us-hospital-healthcare-layoffs-warn-act-notices-daily)
· [retail store closings](https://huggingface.co/datasets/APProjects/us-retail-store-closings-layoffs-warn-act-notices-daily)
· [restaurants & hotels](https://huggingface.co/datasets/APProjects/us-restaurant-hotel-closings-layoffs-warn-act-notices-daily)
· [factory & plant closings](https://huggingface.co/datasets/APProjects/us-factory-plant-closings-manufacturing-layoffs-warn-act-notices-daily)
· [banks, insurance & finance](https://huggingface.co/datasets/APProjects/us-bank-insurance-finance-layoffs-warn-act-notices-daily)
· [warehouses, trucking & logistics](https://huggingface.co/datasets/APProjects/us-warehouse-trucking-logistics-layoffs-warn-act-notices-daily)
· [all 20 sectors](https://huggingface.co/datasets/APProjects/us-layoffs-by-industry-sector-warn-act).

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