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
804 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 2026-09-04 · state source last checked 2026-09-16T12:25Z.
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.
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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 |
| All 48 states, all years (CSV, free) | data/warn_notices.csv |
| All 48 states (JSON, free) | data/latest.json |
| Kentucky RSS feed | feeds/kentucky.xml |
| Notice-period analysis, every state × year | data/notice_period_by_state_year.csv |
| Browsable page with search and charts | Kentucky on the live site |
| Same data on Hugging Face | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Battelle Memorial Institute E3 | Madison | 3 | 2026-05-07 | 2026-07-06 |
Newest 12 of 804 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 |
| 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 |
| Kentucky Apparel | 3 | 382 | 1999-09-03 | 1999-09-20 |
Largest single Kentucky WARN notices on file
The 10 biggest Kentucky notices by employees affected, out of 755 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 492 Kentucky notices in the full archive that carry both a notice date and an effective date, 220 (44.7%) span fewer than 60 days.
| Year | Notices with both dates | Under 60 days | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 30 | 8 | 26.7% |
| 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.
Track Kentucky layoffs without polling this file
- Star the repo or watch releases — GitHub tells you each day the snapshot republishes.
- Check Kentucky right now — free, no signup — every Kentucky notice from the last 180 days, matched in your browser.
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- Full 1988→ archive — free — every state, every year, one schema.
Something wrong in a Kentucky row? Open an issue — it gets fixed the same day.
← all states · repository home · data as of 2026-09-16 · rebuilt daily by an automated pipeline.
A layoff record you can audit, not just download
This dataset is one cut of a single daily rebuild: 61,330 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 2026-09-17; 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:
- 617 observed changes to already-published notices, logged daily since 2026-08-31.
data/revisions.csvrecords 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 (seedata/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 →
Look something up right now — free, no signup, nothing to install. Check any employer or state against the last 180 days → It runs in your browser against these same files.
Building something with it? The same files are a free HTTP API — JSON and
CSV, no key, no signup, access-control-allow-origin: * so fetch() works from
a browser: endpoints, schema and curl examples →
Need one industry only? The same filings, cut by an auditable employer-name rule (each row keeps the rule that fired): tech companies · hospitals & healthcare · retail store closings · restaurants & hotels · factory & plant closings · banks, insurance & finance · warehouses, trucking & logistics · all 20 sectors.
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