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What Fox Corporation layoffs have meant for employees

California's own reports draw the sharpest line in Fox's record. Its 2019-20 WARN report lists the four notices Fox units filed in April 2020 as temporary layoffs, and its 2025-26 report lists the June 2026 Fox Sports En Espanol notice as permanent. The 2020 notices came in the same weeks Fox's top executives agreed to give up all of their base salaries from May through September as part of its response to COVID-19, an April 2020 filing shows, and that April Fox Sports asked on-air talent to take a 15% pay cut, TheWrap reported. If you were among the people on a 2020 notice, the state's label is the plainest public statement of what kind of layoff it was, though none of these records says when, or whether, those workers were called back.

The two other units behind those 2020 notices are less familiar names. Fox Alternative Entertainment makes unscripted shows such as The Masked Singer, mainly for the FOX Network, and the Fox Studio Lot, which Fox owns in Los Angeles, provides production services and office space, according to Fox's fiscal 2026 annual report. Each Fox notice went in under the filing unit's own name, from Fox Sports Productions to Fox Sports En Espanol, so those are the names that turn up in a search of our WARN tracker, and all five were filed in California.

Freelancers are part of this record. Fox's annual report counts freelance and temporary workers among the people it employs for production and broadcast support, and most of the people FOX Deportes cut in 2026 were freelancers, Los Angeles Times en Español reported. On-air voices left with the change too, among them narrator Adrián García Márquez, whose last day was August 31. That annual report also extends Fox's medical, dental and vision plan and its 401(k) to freelancers who work a minimum number of hours. If you freelanced for Fox and got those benefits, your own record of the hours you worked is worth keeping, since hours are what the annual report ties freelance eligibility to.

The reasons Fox's units gave for these cuts have centered on structure. Fox Sports' spokesperson spoke of streamlining to become a more efficient organization, Fox News Media told Mediaite it was realigning functions and restructuring divisions, and Fox News Digital, in a statement TheWrap's January 2021 report carried, said its business and reporting structure had been realigned as the 2020 election cycle ended. Of Fox News Media's 2020 cuts, only those in hair and makeup were described as a result of the pandemic. In 2024, Fox Entertainment chief executive Rob Wade wrote in a memo The Hollywood Reporter published that the decisions were in no way a reflection of anyone's performance or contributions. In the Los Angeles Times en Español account of FOX Deportes folding into FOX Latin America, the company called the integration key to the network's long-term success. If you're explaining a Fox layoff to a future employer, any public statement from your unit is something you can point to, and Wade's memo says it outright for Fox Entertainment's 2024 round.

Fox's fiscal year ends June 30, so its charges run half a year off the calendar. Fox Entertainment's July 2024 cuts fall in fiscal 2025, and Fox's fiscal 2026 10-K note ties most of that year's restructuring charges to discontinuing Venu Sports.

Fox's headquarters is in New York, which the annual report names with Los Angeles as the two worksites where its employee assistance program offers onsite counseling.

A sourced history of Fox Corporation layoffs

• June 2026, FOX Deportes cuts in Los Angeles

  FOX Deportes notified 133 Los Angeles employees on June 30 of changes taking effect September 1 as it merged with FOX Latin America and moved production to Mexico, Los Angeles Times en Español reported; California's WARN report lists a permanent layoff.

• July 2024, Fox Entertainment reorganized into three groups

  Fox Entertainment laid off 30 employees, The Hollywood Reporter reported, as it reorganized its production and business operations into the Fox Television Network, Fox Entertainment Studios and a worldwide sales arm.

• January 2021, Fox News Digital realignment

  Fox News laid off nearly 20 Fox News Digital staffers, including politics editor Chris Stirewalt, TheWrap reported, as the unit realigned after the 2020 election cycle; a person familiar with the matter said each would get enhanced severance and benefits.

• September 2020, Fox News Media restructuring

  Fox News Media laid off staff across several divisions, hitting hair and makeup hardest, with on-air talent said to be unaffected; a source told Mediaite the cuts would reach less than 3% of its staff and every departing employee would get a severance package.

• July 2020, Fox Sports restructuring

  Fox Sports laid off 50 to 100 staffers, 5 to 10% of its workforce, TheWrap reported, in a restructuring the outlet called a belated move tied to the 2019 sale of its regional sports networks to Disney.

• April 2020, temporary layoff notices at three Fox units

  Fox Sports Productions, Fox Alternative Entertainment and the Fox Studio Lot filed four temporary layoff notices in Los Angeles in late April, California's WARN report for that year shows, the largest covering 3,595 jobs.

What to do if you're laid off from Fox Corporation

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Fox Corporation's biggest hubs: California. 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 Fox Corporation's hub states run: California, 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.