Laid off from Hilton.

What Hilton layoffs have meant for employees

Hilton has no employees at franchised hotels, according to its 10-K for 2025, so a cut at one of those isn't Hilton's, and neither are its terms. At many hotels it runs under management contracts, Hilton is the employer, through companies named for its brands, among them Curio Employer LLC and Conrad Employer LLC, both on Hilton's list of subsidiaries and both filers of notices in our WARN tracker. If the employer named on your pay stub is one of those subsidiaries, you work for a Hilton company.

Even at a hotel Hilton manages, the owner generally pays the operating costs and approves the annual operating and capital budgets, the same filing says, while Hilton may be the employer of the staff. Both 2025 notices in the tracker were classified as temporary layoffs in California's WARN report, which makes the return date the thing to find out. The state's report also shows whether a notice was filed as a layoff or a closure, which is worth comparing with what you were told. If your notice says temporary, consider asking for the expected return date in writing, whether health coverage continues while you're off, what happens to accrued vacation and seniority if the layoff runs long, and whether you're free to take other work in the meantime. How California handles an unemployment claim during a layoff is set out at California unemployment benefits.

About 45 percent of the people Hilton employed or managed in the U.S. were covered by union contracts at the end of 2025, and the 10-K says those contracts generally address pay rates, hours, benefits and other terms of employment. In August 2024 it was a Hilton spokesperson who told Hotel Dive that the Hilton San Diego Bayfront was still negotiating with Unite Here Local 30. If a union contract covers you, whatever it says about layoffs, recall and seniority is worth a close read, and the local is where to ask how it applies to a temporary layoff.

Corporate cuts at Hilton on record came out of broader plans, the restructuring and outsourcing of technology and other work at its Memphis offices that The Commercial Appeal reported in 2010, and the pandemic cost cuts of 2020, when Hilton's 10-K for 2020 says the company furloughed a majority of corporate employees for a time and reduced corporate headcount worldwide by about 30 percent. If you're furloughed rather than laid off, the questions that matter are when the furlough is set to end, what happens to your benefits in the meantime and whether it could turn into a layoff.

Where a package comes with a corporate notice, reading up on negotiating a severance agreement before answering is worth the time, and so is asking whether it includes the outplacement and rehiring help that Hilton's June 2020 release listed for affected staff. If the terms come only in conversation, asking for them in writing gives you something to set beside those 2020 details.

Notices from hotels where Hilton is the employer reach the state under its employer companies' names and sometimes under a hotel's name, so if you're watching for one at your hotel, the tracker is worth searching under the employer on your pay stub as well as the hotel's name. A notice from a franchised hotel flying a Hilton brand isn't Hilton's. For the state's notice rules and the other employers filing there, California layoffs is the place to start. Hilton's employer companies filed in Washington and Ohio too, all in 2020, and the rules for claims in those states are at Washington unemployment benefits and Ohio unemployment benefits.

A sourced history of Hilton layoffs

• December 2025, Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills temporary layoff

  Waldorf Astoria Employer LLC told the state on December 1 that 57 workers at the Beverly Hills hotel would be laid off temporarily from February 2, 2026, California's WARN report shows.

• October 2025, Hilton San Diego Bayfront temporary layoff

  A notice dated October 12 under the hotel's own name set a temporary layoff for 394 Bayfront workers starting December 13, the state's WARN report shows.

• September 2024, 47 permanent layoffs at Conrad Employer LLC

  Conrad Employer LLC filed notice on September 10 that 47 jobs at 100 South Grand Avenue in Los Angeles would end permanently on November 13, California's WARN report shows.

• May 2023, Casa Marina Key West closes for renovation

  Curio Employer LLC filed a Florida notice for 80 jobs at the resort, effective May 15, our WARN tracker shows. The resort, part of Hilton's Curio Collection, closed that day for a makeover of all 311 rooms, its sales director told Keys Weekly.

• June 2020, Hilton announces about 2,100 corporate role cuts

  About 2,100 corporate roles were to go, with furloughs and pay cuts extended up to 90 more days and severance pay and outplacement support for those affected, Hilton's June 16 release says. That was more than 20 percent of corporate staff, Virginia Business reported.

• April 2020, notices at Hotel del Coronado, Hilton Anaheim

  Curio Employer LLC filed for 1,064 jobs at the Hotel del Coronado and Hilton Hotel Employer LLC for 1,038 at the Hilton Anaheim in California notices dated April 6, our WARN tracker shows.

• November 2010, Hilton announces 101 Memphis job cuts

  Hilton Worldwide told 101 workers at two Memphis offices, its operations center and commercial services center, that their jobs in technology and other areas would end in January as part of restructuring and outsourcing, The Commercial Appeal reported. Another 36 technology jobs there had gone between June and September.

What to do if you're laid off from Hilton

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