Riverside Layoffs
California WARN Act filings
Intelligence shows 3,087 employees affected across 30 companies in the Riverside market. Thermal Structures, Inc represents the largest single event with 447 positions eliminated. Additional restructuring confirmed at Swift Beef Company and Amazon - MAI8, with Operations departments showing elevated exposure. Effective dates range from September 19 through February 01.
What is happening in Riverside County
Riverside County has 2 active WARN filings covering 140 workers. The largest is ZOLL Medical Corporation, which filed for 78 workers. The next layoff takes effect on 2026-09-29.
Affected workers are spread across 12 cities in the county. The most affected are Corona (1,379 workers), Riverside (524 workers), Palm Springs (236 workers).
Manufacturing accounts for the largest share of affected workers in Riverside County, 46 percent of the total. Retail Trade is next.
Several employers appear more than once in Riverside County: ZOLL Medical Corporation (2 filings), Gold Flora (2 filings). Repeat filings usually mean a phased reduction rather than a single closure.
The largest filings on record in Riverside County are Amazon, 514 workers, effective 2026-04-28; Thermal Structures, 447 workers, effective 2025-11-24; Swift Beef, 374 workers, effective 2026-02-02.
Upcoming and recent layoffs
Filings with an effective date in the future or within the last 90 days.
25 earlier filings in Riverside County have already taken effect and are no longer listed above. They are included in the figures above.
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About WARN Act Filings
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act requires employers with 100 or more employees to provide 60 calendar days advance written notice of a plant closing or mass layoff. California's WARN Act (Labor Code sections 1400-1408) extends this to employers with 75 or more employees. All data on this site is sourced from filings published by the California Employment Development Department.