Laid off from Electrolux.
Electrolux is emptying its Anderson refrigerator plant and restarting the same building as a laundry factory, so the 1,255 jobs on South Carolina's WARN record sit alongside a stated intention to hire up to about 1,200 people across 2027 and 2028. Whether that reaches the same people is the open question.
At a glance
What's known about Electrolux severance and layoffs
- 1,255 across two notices · Anderson jobs on South Carolina's WARN record
- 1,245 jobs, layoffs from July 18 · Main notice, May 2026
- 10 jobs, from December 22 · Second notice, August 2026
- Four to 26 weeks by service · Separation pay in the letter to employees
- About 100, per the county · Kept on through the retooling
- Up to about 1,200 employees · Stated hiring for 2027 and 2028
- 34 · All-time Electrolux filings, our tracker
Recent Electrolux layoffs
Electrolux filed a second Anderson notice in August 2026
South Carolina's WARN report lists a second Electrolux notice at 101 Masters Boulevard dated August 11, 2026, covering 10 jobs with separations scheduled from December 22, 2026 into July 2027. It sits behind the May 15 notice covering 1,245 jobs from July 18 to December 18, 2026. The two rows cover 1,255 jobs, and the larger is the biggest single filing on the state's 2026 list.
Previous rounds
Electrolux layoff history
Refrigerator work in Anderson began winding down in July, and the paperwork behind it sits in public on South Carolina's WARN list. The state's report through September 4, 2026 carries two Electrolux entries at 101 Masters Boulevard, a May 15 notice covering 1,245 jobs with a layoff window running July 18 to December 18, and an August 11 notice covering 10 more scheduled from December 22 into July 2027. That comes to 1,255 jobs from a single address, the largest filing on the state's 2026 list by a wide margin, with the next one down at 451. By South Carolina Public Radio's count it's the state's biggest company layoff since 2020. Electrolux has been building appliances in Anderson since 1988.
If you saved a screenshot of the state list back in May, your number was different. That first edition showed 1,139 people on a single July 18 date; by late August the same entry read 1,245 across a five-month window, with the second notice sitting underneath it. Revisions like that are ordinary in WARN data, and the state's tally is a summary rather than anyone's personal record, so the notice and agreement you were handed are the documents to read against what was reported. Our tracker holds 34 all-time Electrolux filings, so the company has turned up on these lists before.
The news arrived in a meeting at 11:45 on an April morning. Employees walking out told FOX Carolina they were anxious, nervous and scared, with people crying over the time they had put in. The county administrator said he doesn't look at the cut as 1,200 jobs but as 1,200 human beings who have families and needs. What exists on severance is a letter to employees rather than a published policy, and the schedule reported from it scales with service, four weeks at the short end and 26 at the long, with health coverage continuing a week for every week of separation pay. The same official said workers who stayed until July would get a package and that he didn't know whether it would stretch six months. Asked how large the packages were, the spokesperson answered on benefits and job sourcing and left the amount alone. At group level, Electrolux told investors the partnership would affect about 1,500 employees in 2026, with roughly SEK 0.9 billion in cash charges it said mainly relate to severance.
The rehiring promise is what makes this read differently from a plain shutdown. Electrolux and Midea Group set up a joint venture that owns the Anderson factory, 55 percent Electrolux and 45 percent Midea, and the plan turns the building from food preservation to fabric care with production expected to start in the first half of 2027. The venture expects to hire up to about 1,200 people gradually across 2027 and 2028. The company's spokesperson described a chance to reapply rather than a recall, and said the new jobs will call for advanced manufacturing skills. The county administrator put the crew kept on through the retooling at about 100. Electrolux had already spent $250 million there across 37 years in the county, and the venture agreements run an initial 15 years, so the building has a future even where a particular job doesn't.
It helps to know what else was underway. On the same day it announced the partnership, Electrolux announced a plan to improve efficiency expected to take out about 3,000 employees worldwide over two years, having already moved to close a factory in Santiago, Chile and to end production at Jaszbereny, Hungary, affecting roughly 400 and 600 people. In July it reported a quarterly operating loss of SEK 1,005m carrying SEK 2.2bn of negative one-off items, and said execution was on plan. None of that changes an Anderson paycheck, though it does place the decision inside a much larger reorganization announced the same day. Springfield, Tennessee and Kinston, North Carolina were both named as plants the group keeps running.
For money and for dates, start with the state. South Carolina pays up to $326 a week for 20 weeks across a one-year period, tells workers those benefits are taxable at 17 percent, and makes you sit out an unpaid waiting week before anything arrives. Claims open in the MyBenefits portal, and staying eligible means two job searches a week logged in SC Works Online Services. Watch the suitable work rules too, because turning down an offer at 90 percent of your old salary, within 50 miles and on the same shift can cost you benefits, and that bar drops to 75 percent after eight weeks of payments. On notice, the state record shows May 15 against a layoff window opening July 18, which is 64 days and clears the 60 the WARN Act asks of employers with 100 or more people. That describes the filing rather than your envelope, and if yours came later, South Carolina's employment department says plainly that it holds no enforcement role under the act, which leaves a federal court and a lawyer who can read your own dates.
Reporting on previous Electrolux layoff rounds
August 2026, the second Anderson notice · A notice dated August 11, 2026 covering 10 jobs at 101 Masters Boulevard, with separations scheduled to run from December 22, 2026 to July 30, 2027
May 2026, the Anderson refrigerator layoff · A notice dated May 15, 2026 covering 1,245 jobs, with the layoff window running July 18 to December 18, 2026. South Carolina first published it at 1,139 jobs on a single July 18 date.
Separation pay reported from a letter to employees, four weeks under four years of service, rising to a week for every year worked at ten years or more and capping at 26 weeks, plus a week of continued health coverage for each week of separation pay. The company declined to describe the size of the packages.
What to do after being laid off from Electrolux
- File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Electrolux's biggest hubs: South Carolina, Tennessee, North Carolina. 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 Electrolux's hub states run: South Carolina, Tennessee, North Carolina, 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.
Electrolux layoff and severance questions
Is the Electrolux plant in Anderson closing for good?
Refrigeration ends there; the site continues. Electrolux and Midea Group formed a joint venture that owns the Anderson factory, 55 percent to Electrolux and 45 percent to Midea, and the plan repurposes it from food preservation to fabric care, with production expected to begin in the first half of 2027. The refrigerator work moves to a jointly operated plant in Juarez, Mexico.
What severance did Electrolux offer Anderson workers?
The schedule reported from a letter to employees runs four weeks of pay under four years of service, up to a week for every year worked at ten years or more, capped at 26 weeks, plus a week of continued health coverage for every week of separation pay. No plan document is public, and the company declined to describe the packages when the Post and Courier asked. Read the notice and separation agreement you received against that reported schedule, because the copy with your name on it is the one that applies to you.
When should I file for unemployment in South Carolina?
File once the job actually ends, because the state makes you serve an unpaid waiting week worth one full week of benefits before any money moves. Claims start in the MyBenefits portal, the maximum runs $326 a week for 20 weeks, and the state's own handout puts the tax on those benefits at 17 percent. Staying eligible means logging two job searches a week in SC Works Online Services, and you file where the wages were earned rather than where you live.
Did Electrolux give 60 days of notice before the Anderson layoffs?
On the state record the notice date reads May 15, 2026 and the layoff window opens July 18, which is 64 days and clears the 60 the WARN Act asks of employers with 100 or more employees. That describes the filing rather than any individual envelope. If your own notice arrived later, South Carolina's employment department says it holds no enforcement role under the act, so the claim belongs in federal district court. What an employer owes there runs to back pay and benefits for however long the violation lasted, with 60 days as the ceiling, shrunk by any notice given and by voluntary payments already made.
Will laid-off Anderson workers get hired back in 2027?
The joint venture expects to hire up to about 1,200 people gradually across 2027 and 2028, close to the number let go. The company described that as a chance to reapply rather than a recall, and said the new jobs will call for advanced manufacturing skills. The county administrator said about 100 workers stay on through the retooling and that everyone laid off would be eligible to be rehired. Nothing on record promises the same pay, shift or classification.
Where do I file for unemployment after being laid off from Electrolux?
In the state where you worked, not where the company is headquartered. Electrolux's biggest U.S. hubs are South Carolina, Tennessee, North Carolina. Severance usually doesn't block you from filing, and benefits run from your filing date, so file the same week.
Is it OK to file for unemployment after a layoff at Electrolux?
Yes. Unemployment insurance is funded by payroll taxes employers pay on wages, the claim never appears on credit reports or background checks, and future employers cannot see it. If the hesitation itself is the obstacle, whether filing is OK has its own article.
What happens to my health insurance after a layoff at Electrolux?
Your plan sets the end date rather than the law, so the separation packet is where that date actually lives, and it is often the last day of the month rather than your last day of work. After coverage ends, COBRA lets you keep the identical plan by paying the whole premium yourself, up to 102 percent of what the plan really costs, which lands as several times the payroll deduction you were used to. You get 60 days to elect, counted from the later of coverage ending or the election notice arriving, and electing reaches the coverage back to the day the old plan stopped so no gap exists. How continuation coverage works walks the timing, and whether to take it rather than a marketplace plan is a separate decision.
Should I sign the severance agreement right away?
First pin down how much review time you actually have. If you're 40 or older, federal law gives you 21 days to consider an agreement that waives age claims, 45 in a group layoff, and a waiver signed under a shorter deadline can be invalid. If you're under 40, no federal window applies and the deadline in your packet may be real, so confirm it in writing and ask for more time if you need it. Use whatever window you have to read the release terms, especially non-disparagement and no-lawsuit clauses, and don't stall past a real deadline, because offers can be withdrawn.
Can I collect unemployment if I got severance from Electrolux?
Usually yes, though some states delay benefits until severance pay periods end, and lump sums are treated differently than salary continuation. Check your state's rules on our state benefit pages, and file immediately either way so your claim date is locked in.