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What Johnson Controls layoffs have meant for employees

Johnson Controls' workforce reductions were counted in the thousands for the plans covered by the restructuring notes in its fiscal 2018 10-K and fiscal 2022 10-K. Those counts span the whole company, and the notes don't break them out by country or site, so a plan's total can't place a cut at your building. The plans also played out over years. By September 30, 2018, about 4,900 of the 11,500 reductions planned in fiscal 2016 through 2018 had been made, and by September 30, 2022, about 4,000 of the 2021 Plan's 6,200. State notices are where site-level detail shows up, and our WARN tracker matches two 2025 notices to the company, both filed in Maryland. A quiet stretch in a state's notices says little about whether a plan reached your site.

Selling and spinning off whole businesses also changed whose record a cut belongs to. The Automotive Experience business left as Adient on October 31, 2016, with no stake kept, according to the fiscal 2016 10-K, so cuts in that business since then are Adient's to report, and our Adient page follows them. The 2016 merger worked the other way, bringing in Tyco's fire and security businesses, so cuts there are Johnson Controls' own. The Bosch sale on July 31, 2025 took roughly 3,400 of the company's U.S. employees and the Norman and Wichita plants, as PHCPPros reported. If your plant was one of those two, cuts there since the closing are Bosch's to announce. The company's workforce stood at about 87,000 at September 30, 2025, down from 2024 primarily because of divestitures like that one, its fiscal 2025 10-K says.

The plan Johnson Controls took on in late fiscal 2024 addresses stranded costs following previously announced portfolio simplification, along with a further right-sizing of its operations, and the company expects to wrap it up in fiscal 2027, according to its 10-Q for the June 2026 quarter. The 10-K says the costs fall across every segment and the corporate functions. By the end of June 2026, it had booked $282 million under that plan, $118 million of it in the preceding nine months, when it also recorded $55 million of severance, paid out $78 million and carried a $34 million severance reserve. If you're still at one of the company's sites, that June 2026 note is the latest running tally of the plan's companywide costs and severance reserve, so it tracks the plan's size rather than any one site.

If you were at Federalsburg or at York International's Baltimore site, our Maryland unemployment page has the state's claim steps, and Maryland layoff notices gathers the state's other filings, including any later ones from the company. If your job went to Bosch with the Norman or Wichita plant and later ended, the Oklahoma unemployment and Kansas unemployment pages cover claims in those two states.

Two groups of workers have more on record about severance than the rest. If you moved to Bosch in the sale and were let go without cause within a year of the closing, the Bosch purchase agreement had Bosch match the value of the Johnson Controls policy in its schedules and count your Johnson Controls service, though the filed agreement leaves out that policy's formula. If you're at the Matamoros plant and a move to another company plant such as Reynosa is offered, which the union says is possible according to El Cronista, that offer is worth weighing on its own terms beside the severance the union described. Negotiating a severance agreement covers which terms tend to be open to change.

A sourced history of Johnson Controls layoffs

• July 2026, union announces Matamoros plant closing

  The union at Tyco International's Matamoros, Mexico, factory said the Johnson Controls unit would wind it down by September 2027 at a cost of about 1,000 union jobs, according to N+, and that the company had guaranteed the severance the law and labor contract require.

• October 2025, Federalsburg, Maryland plant closing notice

  Johnson Controls, Inc. set a plant closing at 412 Railroad Avenue in Federalsburg for December 15, 2025, covering 61 jobs, in an October 14 notice recorded in Maryland's 2025 WARN log.

• September 2025, York International layoff in Baltimore

  York International Corporation reported a no-recall mass layoff of 54 jobs at 9104 Yellow Brick Road in Baltimore, effective November 14, 2025, in a September 5 notice on Maryland's 2025 WARN log.

• Late fiscal 2024, multi-year restructuring plan through fiscal 2027

  Johnson Controls committed to a multi-year plan for costs stranded by its portfolio simplification, severance included, through fiscal 2027. Fiscal 2025 charges were $164 million, $100 million of it severance and termination benefits, its fiscal 2025 10-K records.

• Fiscal 2023, plan to scale selling and administrative costs

  Johnson Controls began a plan in fiscal 2023's third quarter to scale selling and administrative costs to planned growth, primarily through fourth-quarter workforce reductions. Across that plan and others, fiscal 2023 restructuring cost $276 million, $204 million of it severance, per the fiscal 2023 10-K.

• Fiscal 2021, multi-year restructuring through fiscal 2023

  The 2021 Plan called for about 6,200 workforce reductions, the fiscal 2022 10-K says, with about 4,000 people separated by September 30, 2022, and its cost rose from an expected $385 million to $424 million.

• Fiscal 2016 to 2018, three restructuring plans

  Plans committed in fiscal 2016, 2017 and 2018 called for about 11,500 workforce reductions, 9,100 in the building technologies business, 2,200 at corporate and 200 in Power Solutions, plus twelve plant closures, seven of them closed by September 2018, the fiscal 2018 10-K shows.

What to do if you're laid off from Johnson Controls

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