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What Genuine Parts layoffs have meant for employees

If your job at NAPA, Motion or Genuine Parts’ Atlanta headquarters is ending or might be, the employer across the table has been restructuring since February 2024 and has announced a plan to split in two. When Genuine Parts Company (GPC) announced the restructuring, the company expected $100 million to $200 million of costs in 2024. It booked $221 million that year and $254 million in 2025, and its 2025 annual report said it was widening the program, with another $235 million to $260 million expected in 2026 and $710 million to $735 million across 2024 through 2026.

The 2026 costs come with the least detail. Across the first half, $23.5 million went to severance and other employee costs and $105.4 million to a category covering professional fees, accelerated rent, facility closures, moving and asset impairments, and inventory was liquidated rather than moved as facilities consolidated. That category’s share of the total in each year’s filed restructuring table has grown, from a little over half in 2024 to about four-fifths in 2025, so in the program’s later stretch far more was booked for fees, rent, closures, moves and impairments than for severance and other employee costs.

Our WARN tracker counts 7 Genuine Parts filings all-time, with 0 filings covering 0 jobs since the start of 2025. Severance money shows up in the 2026 quarterly filings all the same, so if a closure reaches your site, a written answer from HR on whether a WARN notice went to your state and, if one did, what separation date it lists is worth having.

On the pension side, if you had a benefit in GPC’s U.S. qualified pension plan and didn’t take a lump sum, the insurer that took on the plan’s remaining obligations holds it. If your plan ended in what PBGC calls a standard termination, PBGC says you’d get a Notice of Plan Benefits stating your amount and form of payment, a Notice of Annuity Information naming the insurer and your state guaranty association’s coverage if the insurer wasn’t named in the earlier notice of intent to terminate, and a Notice of Annuity Contract no later than 30 days after the contract is available, and that its guarantee ends once plan assets are distributed. If that termination finished and you think you were missed, PBGC’s unclaimed pensions page is where to look. The settlements were paid out of the plan’s own assets with no added cash from GPC, and the company says the surplus left over will fund certain contributions to its U.S. defined contribution plan, which it calls a Qualified Replacement Plan, and any remaining pension expenses. If you’re in that plan, some of the company’s contributions to it are set to come from the old pension. If your pension is with one of GPC’s plans for eligible employees in Canada or Europe, or with a supplemental retirement plan in the U.S. or Canada, it isn’t the plan that ended, and the 2025 annual report still describes those plans.

If you have separation paperwork, the split is the last thing to hold it against. GPC announced on February 17, 2026 that it intends to separate into Global Automotive, its North America and International Automotive segments, and Global Industrial, its Industrial segment. That same month, CEO Will Stengel told investors, according to CIO Dive, that a select number of IT, sourcing and back-office support functions would be managed and transitioned. If your job sits in one of those functions, or your separation date falls near the split, which company is responsible for any severance agreement, retirement account and benefits that apply to you once the separation takes effect is worth getting in writing, and if you have separation papers, worth keeping with them.