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What Kenvue layoffs have meant for employees

Kenvue has sized its company-wide cuts as percentages, and the filings behind them put more of the planned charges into IT and project work than into people. The May 2024 Form 8-K and the February 2026 Form 8-K set aside about 40% and about 35% of their charges for employee-related costs, with IT and project costs taking the larger share both times. Neither filing names a site or a country, so a share of a worldwide staff tells you little about any single office. The record does show which kinds of work were in play. The 2024 plan came as Kenvue's transition service agreement with J&J was winding down, Fierce Pharma reported, while Kenvue's June 2026 quarterly report says that plan centralized shared-service functions in lower-cost locations. The 2026 plan names the operating model and the supply chain as its targets, and it was well underway by mid-2026, with $147 million of its roughly $250 million estimate booked by June 28, the same report shows. If your job could be done from a cheaper hub, that's the part of the record that speaks to it.

For people in offices Kenvue was closing, the alternative on record was a move toward New Jersey, with relocation and jobs at other company locations offered when Neutrogena's Los Angeles office was slated to close, Bloomberg reported. The destination had cuts of its own. While disclosing a notice that scheduled cuts at the new Summit headquarters for late 2025, a Kenvue spokesperson told NJBIZ the company expected to end up with more New Jersey jobs than when it started once its consolidation from other states was done. That forecast covered the state as a whole, and it came months before the Summit layoffs were set to begin. If a transfer to New Jersey is on offer, those Summit cuts belong in the weighing, since moving toward the headquarters didn't keep the headquarters itself out of a notice.

The sale to Kimberly-Clark changes the severance picture for a set window only. The comparison the merger agreement adds starts at closing and lasts one year, so if your layoff date falls near the closing, it's worth knowing whether it lands before the deal closes or inside that first year. For people who stay on, the agreement also calls for commercially reasonable efforts to credit Kenvue service toward eligibility, vacation and severance under the combined company's plans, so years already worked aren't meant to start over. One question the agreement leaves open is whether Kenvue's 401(k) plans end the day before closing, which the two companies are to settle in good faith beforehand. If you have a balance there, that decision is worth watching for before the deal closes.

Before the 2023 split, the same consumer business filed its notices under other names, and those filings count toward Kenvue in our WARN tracker because the companies that made them belong to Kenvue now, McNeil Consumer Pharmaceuticals and Vogue International among them on Kenvue's 2025 subsidiary list. If your old paperwork carries one of those names, the notice covering your site could carry that name instead. When Vogue International's Phenix City center was closing in 2018, the city brought in Alabama's Rapid Response Team and lined up community college training and job fairs, according to the Citizen of East Alabama. The recent notices were filed in New Jersey and California, and each state runs its own unemployment program, covered for New Jersey and California.

A sourced history of Kenvue layoffs

• February 2026, operating model and supply chain restructuring

  Kenvue's board approved a plan on February 17 to optimize the operating model and transform the supply chain, expecting a net cut of about 3.5% in the global workforce, its February 2026 Form 8-K said. It put 2026 charges at about $250 million, about 35% of them employee-related.

• June 2025, Summit headquarters cuts

  A filing with New Jersey's labor department said Kenvue would eliminate 69 positions at its recently opened Summit headquarters between October 10 and December 19, 2025, NJBIZ reported.

• May 2024, restructuring as Johnson & Johnson services wound down

  Kenvue's board approved a multi-year plan on May 6 to cut the net global workforce by about 4%, its May 2024 Form 8-K said, as a transition services agreement with Johnson & Johnson wound down, Fierce Pharma reported.

• March 2024, Skillman cuts before the Summit move

  Kenvue cut 51 jobs at its temporary base in Skillman, New Jersey, ahead of the move to its new Summit headquarters, NJBIZ reported. The layoffs were dated March 15, 2024, per our WARN tracker.

• February 2024, Neutrogena Los Angeles office closing

  Neutrogena's Los Angeles office was set to close, with 84 layoffs and relocation offers for 74 of those workers, as Kenvue pulled operations into New Jersey, Bloomberg reported. A notice dated February 12 set the closing for April 12, according to our WARN tracker.

• 2018, Vogue International's Phenix City distribution center closing

  Phenix City, Alabama learned that Vogue International, which Johnson & Johnson had agreed to buy, would close its 150-worker distribution center effective April 30, the Citizen of East Alabama reported. Kenvue's 2025 subsidiary list names Vogue International LLC.

What to do if you're laid off from Kenvue

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