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What Lennox layoffs have meant for employees

When Lennox has explained a Marshalltown layoff, it has pointed to production and demand. In 2020 a spokesperson said future staffing would be aligned with an economic recovery and product demand, according to a KCRG report that April, and in 2025 the company tied its August cut to bringing inventory back to normal and its September cut to business needs and market conditions, the Times-Republican reported in a July 2025 story and a September follow-up. Lennox's annual report for 2025 says the number of hourly workers varies to match labor needs as demand fluctuates, and it still listed Marshalltown as a manufacturing and distribution site at year's end. So the 2020 and 2025 cuts came at a plant that kept running, sized by Lennox's own account to demand and business needs. Before the January 2023 cut, a city report had counted about 915 Lennox employees in Marshalltown, the paper noted in a December 2022 story. At Stuttgart, Arkansas, Talk Business & Politics reported two rounds of cuts within months, in late 2008 and February 2009, at a plant that also kept running.

UAW Local 893 was the union serving Lennox employees in July 2025, when the Times-Republican reported the August cut, and Lennox's annual report says its Marshalltown-based union ratified a five-year labor agreement on November 1, 2021. One worker caught in that January 2023 layoff told the paper there was "no set return date," and that as he understood it, Lennox had to offer laid-off employees a chance to return, with their seniority and pay, before hiring anyone new. That's one worker's account. If you're hoping to be called back, it's worth keeping your phone number and address current with both the company and the local.

The first number on a Lennox notice hasn't always been the last. Marshalltown's June 2025 notice was later amended to reflect fewer people affected on August 1, and a second filing added more layoffs for late September, Lennox told the paper that month. Each Grenada notice was a layoff, not a closure, Mississippi's 2023 notice list and 2025 list show, with the economy cited in 2023 and a down season in 2025. Grenada is where Advanced Distributor Products, the Lennox business that sells evaporator coils, air handlers and unit heaters, filed those notices. If your job is on one of these notices, its count and dates are the company's plan on the day it filed, and Marshalltown's 2025 filings show that plan changing twice.

The closings Lennox announced between 2006 and 2009 each called for shifting the work to another Lennox site, in South Carolina, Georgia or Saltillo, Mexico, according to its 2006 8-K, 2007 8-K and 2009 8-K. Each of those filings estimated the one-time termination benefits of the action it announced, and the Bellevue one also estimated relocation costs for certain employees as well as equipment. Of the three, the Bellevue filing is the one that sets union termination benefits apart, conditioning them on the eligibility rules in the UAW Local 1623 contract. If a union agreement covers you, that closing is the example on record of a contract's own terms deciding who qualified.

When 2025 closed, Lennox's property list still named Marshalltown, Grenada and Stuttgart, the three plants where it cut jobs without closing them, along with Orangeburg, South Carolina and Tifton, Georgia, two of the sites its earlier closings were set to send work to. For a claim after a Marshalltown layoff, there's more at Iowa unemployment benefits, after a Grenada one at Mississippi unemployment benefits, and after a Stuttgart one at Arkansas unemployment benefits.

A sourced history of Lennox layoffs

• September 2025, 49 more Marshalltown layoffs

  A newer filing added 49 Marshalltown layoffs effective September 28, Lennox told the Times-Republican, saying it "continuously adjusts production needs and staffing to align with business needs and current market conditions."

• August 2025, Grenada layoff notice

  Advanced Distributor Products, a Lennox unit, notified Mississippi on August 13 of 69 layoffs at Grenada, according to Mississippi's WARN list and our WARN tracker, giving "reduction of workforce during down season" as the reason.

• August 2025, Marshalltown production layoff

  Iowa's WARN site first listed 62 Marshalltown layoffs for August 1, and Lennox tied them to normalizing inventory after "the 2025 low-GWP regulatory transition," the Times-Republican reported; Lennox later told the paper for a September report that the notice had been amended to 22 as of August 1.

• April and June 2023, two Grenada layoff notices

  Advanced Distributor Products gave Mississippi notice of 67 Grenada layoffs on April 7 and 38 more on June 6, the state's 2023 notice list shows, both "due to the downturn in the economy."

• December 2022, notice of 114 Marshalltown layoffs

  A Lennox Industries notice dated December 20 set 114 Marshalltown layoffs for January 16, the Times-Republican reported from Iowa's WARN log.

• April 2020, 183 Marshalltown layoffs amid COVID-19

  Lennox said it would lay off 183 Marshalltown employees effective April 27 "as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and economic downturn," KCRG reported, after a brief March shutdown over two positive tests.

• February 2009, Stuttgart, Arkansas plant job cuts

  Lennox cut 242 hourly jobs and 14 salaried positions, about 24% of its Stuttgart plant's workforce, according to Talk Business & Politics, after 160 layoffs there in late 2008.

• February 2009, Blackville, South Carolina consolidation announced

  Allied Air Enterprises, a Lennox subsidiary, planned to move Blackville's operations into Orangeburg, South Carolina and the LII United Products facility in Saltillo, Mexico within two years; Lennox's 8-K filing estimated about $3.5 million in one-time termination expense.

• October 2007, Danville, Illinois refrigeration closing announced

  Lennox planned to close its Danville refrigeration operations over about 18 months, citing domestic and foreign competition, and move the work to Tifton and Stone Mountain, Georgia; its 8-K filing put one-time termination benefits at about $3.8 million.

• February 2006, Bellevue, Ohio closing announced

  Allied Air Enterprises, a Lennox division, planned to close its Bellevue operations and consolidate them in South Carolina; Lennox's 8-K filing estimated its one-time termination benefits at about $7.6 million, including about $2.6 million in union benefits.

What to do if you're laid off from Lennox

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