Laid off from PVH.

What PVH layoffs have meant for employees

The office cuts under PVH's 2022 plan were measured against a cost target, about 10% of people costs in its global offices, as its annual report describes it, and a target set in money can be met by cutting more or fewer than 10% of the people. When PVH made cuts under that plan, Fashion Dive reported, New York's notice for them spread separations over months, so people on the same notice could leave on different days. That spacing matters for anything tied to a date. Under PVH's employee RSU award agreement form, for example, a stock installment vests only if you're still employed on its vesting date. If your team is part of a round like that, your last day may fall months after the announcement, and it's reasonable to ask for that date in writing, along with what happens to pay, benefits and stock units when it arrives.

In the warehouses, PVH has been consolidating. Its finance chief laid out a plan on an April earnings call, Supply Chain Dive reported, to run U.S. distribution from two buildings at about 85% to 90% of capacity, up from slightly above 50%. The Jonesville site, which the Yadkin Ripple said PVH had run since 1994, was the one set to close, with its work shifting to Georgia, and PVH had already sold another warehouse and distribution center as part of the same push. If PVH is moving your building's work elsewhere, you can ask whether a job comes with it at the receiving site and what relocation help, if any, PVH would offer.

Store jobs made up the largest part of PVH's workforce when it last counted for that annual report, 64% of associates. In California, 19 of PVH's rows in our WARN tracker are named for an outlet center or a mall after PVH Corp., so if you're checking whether layoffs at a particular center were filed, its name is worth having alongside the company's.

About 66% of PVH's associates worked outside the United States at that count, by the same filing's split, and the overhaul PVH began in 2024 included reengineering its operating model in Europe. That same annual report notes works councils in several European countries, which represent workers on certain actions that could have a broad effect on them. In the United States, unions represented roughly 2% of all PVH associates at that same year-end, so if a collective bargaining agreement covers you, it's worth reading what it says about layoffs alongside anything PVH offers.

PVH completed the sale of the IZOD, Van Heusen, ARROW and Geoffrey Beene trademarks to Authentic Brands Group in August 2021, according to its closing announcement, in which CEO Stefan Larsson spoke of a clear focus on Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger and thanked the Heritage Brands team. PVH kept its dress shirt and neckwear business at the time, including under those brand names through a license from the buyer, and its annual report records the later sale of the Warner's, Olga and True&Co. intimates businesses to Basic Resources in November 2023. The two PVH Neckwear filings in our tracker, both in Los Angeles, were closures in that neckwear business. If you worked on one of those labels after its sale, the company your pay stubs name, which may or may not be PVH, is the one to search for in layoff notices.

Twenty-five of PVH's 30 tracker filings run under PVH Corp., and the other five run under Phillips-Van Heusen, PVH Neckwear and Tommy Hilfiger USA, so if you're looking for a particular site, it's worth trying each name. If your job was in Bridgewater, New Jersey, there's more on that state's notices at New Jersey layoffs.

A sourced history of PVH layoffs

• January 2025, Jonesville distribution center closing notice

  PVH filed to permanently close its Jonesville, North Carolina, distribution center, listing 317 jobs effective December 31, 2025 on North Carolina's 2025 WARN report. The work was shifting, according to Supply Chain Dive, to its two Georgia warehouses.

• Since 2024, Growth Driver 5 overhaul

  From the second quarter of 2024, PVH reworked its technology, distribution network, European operating model and support functions, and its annual report shows severance, termination benefits and other employee costs of $33.5 million that year and $80.1 million in 2025.

• July 2023, more office cuts and a New York notice

  PVH laid off more staff, Fashion Dive reported, with about $50 million in severance expected. A New York notice dated July 11 listed 123 of 1,407 employees at three New York City sites, with separations set from August 1 to December 31.

• August 2022, plan to cut office people costs about 10%

  PVH set out to cut people costs in its global offices by about 10% by the end of 2023, a plan its annual report calls completed at $81.5 million in severance, termination benefits and other employee costs.

• July 2020, Heritage Brands Retail exit and office cuts

  PVH said in a July 2020 8-K that it would close its Heritage Brands Retail business, 162 outlet stores expected to operate through mid-2021, and cut about 450 North America office positions, or 12%, across all three brand businesses.

• January 2019, Calvin Klein restructuring

  PVH told investors in a January 2019 8-K that it would restructure Calvin Klein, relaunching 205W39NYC under a new name, closing the Madison Avenue flagship and combining the men's sportswear and jeans operations, with about $120 million in expected pre-tax costs.

What to do if you're laid off from PVH

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