Hundreds More Laid off in Arizona as Job Cuts Continue

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Arizona Job Losses Mount

The layoffs continue in Arizona.

Under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, employers with more than 100 full-time workers must provide 60 days' notice before laying off 50 or more employees at a single site. Last week, Steward Health Care System filed a layoff notice with the Arizona Department of Economic Security.

The notice advised that 255 staff in Phoenix will be laid off.

This WARN notice is the latest in a series of layoffs that have affected Arizona in recent weeks and adds to the growing list of job cuts in the state.

Arizona Job Cuts

• Conn's Home Plus is closing twelve stores which will lead to 240 staff across Arizona losing their jobs.
• ABM Industry Grops laid off 138 staff in Tempe/
• Sam Levitz Furniture advised that 181 staff in Tucson will be laid off.
• Sound Physicians are laying off 98 staff in Tucson.
• Amentum has also filed a layoff notice advisisg 108 employees will lose their jobs.
• Newrez is laying off 78 staff members in Tempe.
• Schuff Steel will lay 63 staff off.
• Northrop Grumman has advised that 543 employees in Chandler will be laid off.
• Panera Bread announced the upcoming closure of its dough-making facility in Chandler, which will result in the layoff of 64 employees.
• Evernorth Care Group is laying off 261 staff in Scottsdale
• TuSimple is laying off staff in Tucson
• Kalil Bottling Company is laying off 546 staff in Tucson
• All of us Research Program is laying off 45 staff in Phoenix
• Obvio Health is laying off 51 staff
• Walmart is laying off 74 staff in Phoenix
• Savers are laying off 42 staff in Phoenix
• Devine Holdings is laying off staff in Mohave Valley
• Big Lots is also closing several stores, resulting in 299 staff being laid off.

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