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What Mohawk Industries layoffs have meant for employees

The closings on record include mills where people had spent most of their working lives. At Bennettsville, several employees had worked at the plant for more than 40 years, and Mohawk jobs were a quarter of the county's manufacturing work, WPDE reported; one worker told the station he'd filled out dozens of applications at a job fair without a callback. In Eden, Mohawk's vice president for human services said many employees had spent their entire careers there, according to Floor Daily. If that's your story, it's a hard place to stand, and a company-wide savings figure doesn't make it any smaller.

Lyerly and Bennettsville show how much a plant's location shaped what came next. At Lyerly, in Georgia, the closing came with an offer of jobs at other Mohawk plants close by, the Times Free Press reported, while the South Carolina campus came with outplacement help aimed at local employers even as its yarn work went to Mohawk plants in northwest Georgia, according to Floor Daily. The county's administrator called the closing unexpected, since the council had approved new tax incentives for Mohawk that April. If Mohawk offers you work at another plant, the shift, the pay rate and the drive are all fair to ask about before you decide, along with what declining would mean for any package you'd otherwise receive.

The restructuring Mohawk has run since 2022 reaches people differently. When it began, the company said its most significant actions would be in North American flooring, including some fiber assets and reducing rug manufacturing capacity, as the Bennettsville report quoted its release. Since then Mohawk has shuttered less-efficient facilities, decommissioned obsolete equipment, realigned its manufacturing footprint and consolidated logistics, its 2025 annual report says, and it expects the cumulative actions to deliver about $365 million in annualized savings once they're finalized. In North American flooring, its 2025 10-K shows, $61.3 million of the segment's $88.3 million in 2025 restructuring costs were booked as asset write-downs and $1.0 million as severance. If Mohawk announces a change at the warehouse where you work, you can ask how it affects your job, your worksite and where you'd report. The same goes for a line that's being idled rather than a whole plant closing, where it's worth asking whether you're being offered another line, a transfer or a separation, and having that answer on paper.

A closing date isn't always the last day of work. At Bennettsville, several workers told WPDE they learned on a Monday that Friday would be their last day, weeks ahead of the Oct. 6 date. If you've been handed a closing date, it's worth asking whether pay runs to it if the plant stops sooner, and whether taking another job before then ends that pay. If your health coverage came through Mohawk, how COBRA works lays out what keeping it involves, and negotiating a severance agreement is worth a look if a package comes with a release to sign.

At Bennettsville, South Carolina's employment department and Marlboro County ran two job fairs with more than 50 employers alongside one Mohawk held, and the state's 2022 WARN report points readers to its Dislocated Worker Unit and Rapid Response services. If a closing is announced where you work, it may be worth contacting your state's workforce office early to ask what it offers. If you worked at a Georgia plant, Georgia unemployment benefits is the place to start, and the South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Alabama pages cover the other states where Mohawk's tracker filings and closings sit. If you're tracing an older notice, you can look in our WARN tracker under Mohawk and under Aladdin Mills and Horizon Carpet, names some of its Georgia filings went in under.

A sourced history of Mohawk Industries layoffs

• July 2026, Mohawk's new restructuring projects

  Mohawk said in its second-quarter release that it had begun projects in operational simplification, organizational realignment, warehouse consolidation and capacity optimization, most to be finished by the end of 2027.

• July 2024, Mohawk restructuring targeting $100 million in savings

  Mohawk said in its July 2024 release it planned to idle less productive operations, consolidate regional warehouses and retire less efficient equipment across its segments, aiming at $100 million in annualized savings.

• August 2022, Mohawk's Bennettsville, South Carolina yarn plants closing

  Mohawk ESV's notice to South Carolina set a closing for Oct. 6 affecting 600 workers, according to the state's 2022 WARN report, and Floor Daily reported the yarn work was moving to northwest Georgia, with outplacement help for staff. In early September, a Mohawk statement WPDE carried said the shutdown had been moved up because equipment moved faster than expected.

• March 2021, Mohawk's Eden, North Carolina mill closing

  Mohawk filed a WARN notice with North Carolina on March 3 to close its union mill in Eden, Floor Daily reported, with more than 100 employees affected and the full shutdown expected April 23.

• April 2019, Mohawk's Lyerly, Georgia tufting plant closing

  Mohawk said April 30 that tufting at its Lyerly plant would end June 30, affecting 250 employees, according to Floor Daily, and the Times Free Press reported it would offer jobs at nearby Mohawk plants to as many people as possible.

What to do if you're laid off from Mohawk Industries

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Mohawk Industries's biggest hubs: Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia. 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 Mohawk Industries's hub states run: Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, 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.