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What Edgewell Personal Care layoffs have meant for employees

If you're at Edgewell's Milford or Knoxville plant, the closing date that matters is your own. The Milford notice said employees would get at least 60 days' notice, by Hartford Business's account, and the schedules themselves can move. Parts of Edgewell's plant consolidation have already run longer than planned. In May 2026, the company said it was running some duplicate sites longer than planned to protect service while it consolidated wet shave production, according to its second-quarter call. If you're in either plant, it's worth asking which round of layoffs your job falls in, and checking that date again as the work moves.

When the Milford closing was announced in November 2025, there was no word on whether its employees could transfer, WTNH reported, and Tennessee's November 2025 memo says the Knoxville workers weren't covered by a union contract and had no bumping rights. The two Edgewell factories nearest the Shelton headquarters were in Knoxville, itself set to close, and in Aguascalientes, Mexico, CT Insider noted. In Mexico, Edgewell did offer moves. It had said it intended to move at least half of its 1,300 Obregón employees to the new Aguascalientes plant, which CT Insider placed about six hours north of Mexico City, and a significant part of those offered the move chose not to go, for economic, personal or family reasons, according to El Imparcial, which reported they would be paid off as Mexican law sets out. If you're offered a move along with severance, it's worth getting in writing whether declining the move changes the severance, and whether any help with moving comes with it.

For office staff the record looks different. Both of Edgewell's filings in our WARN tracker, covering 425 jobs, are for plants, and a spokesperson said the headquarters would remain in Connecticut, as WTNH reported. Edgewell's other offices, in Chesterfield, Missouri and Coppell, Texas, support its operations, officials told CT Insider. Within the Milford closing itself, the notice covered administrative roles as well as manufacturing ones. Separately, Edgewell's quarterly report shows severance and related costs in the nine months to June of both 2025 and 2026 under what it calls its operating model redesign, which aims to simplify the organization's ways of working and improve manufacturing and supply chain efficiency, and the report books that program apart from its Mexico and wet shave plant programs. If a reorganization reaches your team, it's worth asking how roles were chosen and what the separation terms are before your last day.

In Milford, where Schick has been since the 1960s, the city's economic development director, Robert Townes, talked of a job fair, resume help and possibly working with Edgewell on tuition reimbursement, WTNH reported. In Knoxville, the state alerted a rapid response team employed by the East Tennessee Human Resources Agency to arrange services with Edgewell and its workers, according to Tennessee's memo, with the region's local workforce board overseeing the dislocated worker services that follow. If you're in Knoxville, it's worth finding out how to reach that team, since the state assigned it to this closing. If tuition reimbursement for upskilling, which Edgewell listed in its Knoxville statement to WVLT, is part of your package, it's worth checking whether a course that runs past your last day still counts. For the two states where Edgewell's filings went, the unemployment rules are at Connecticut unemployment benefits and Tennessee unemployment benefits.

A sourced history of Edgewell Personal Care layoffs

• November 2025, Knoxville plant set to close in stages

  Edgewell set its plant at 2820 Media Drive to close in stages from June 1, 2026 through December 31, 2027, a November 14 Tennessee memo shows, and told WVLT it would provide counseling, resume help and tuition reimbursement.

• November 2025, Schick's Milford plant set to close by 2027

  Edgewell's notice, as Hartford Business described it, set the 10 Leighton Road plant to close by December 31, 2027, with first layoffs due March 2 to 16, 2026, and the company said it would offer severance and outplacement assistance.

• 2024, two Mexican plants set to merge in Aguascalientes

  Edgewell announced a $115 million factory in August 2024, built to consolidate its Obregón and Mexico City plants, CT Insider reported, and severance settlements for about 500 Obregón workers had begun by May 2025, according to El Imparcial.

What to do if you're laid off from Edgewell Personal Care

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Edgewell Personal Care's biggest hubs: Connecticut, Tennessee. Somewhere else? Every state is here.
• Apply for financial and hardship assistance. Unemployment supplements income, but food benefits, health coverage and utility help are often available as well. Here's some of what Edgewell Personal Care's hub states run: Connecticut, Tennessee, and every other state is here.
• Mind the health insurance window. Losing coverage opens a 60-day special enrollment period, and an ACA plan usually beats unsubsidized COBRA. Compare your options before the employer coverage lapses, and read how the COBRA clocks run if you are weighing it seriously.
• Get your real runway number. Severance plus savings divided by reality. The calculator takes five minutes.
• Know which clocks are already running. Severance review windows, COBRA election, visa grace periods, and 401(k) rollovers all run on federal deadlines that started at termination. All five deadlines are here.