Laid off from RR Donnelley.

What RR Donnelley layoffs have meant for employees

The dates in RR Donnelley's closing letters on record are a plan the company says can still change. The letter to Oregon and the letter to Indiana each warn that "various factors may still affect the timing of any employment terminations," and Mark Brothers, the human resources executive who signed both, said the same about Nacogdoches, KETK reported. Their head counts are hedged the same way, as the number of employees who "may be affected," so a letter's figure is what the company expected when it wrote. How long a closing takes has varied too, with Plainfield's letter setting a 14-day period for separations and Medford's giving a window that ran to the end of the year. If your letter gives a window instead of one date, as Medford's and Plainfield's did, your own last day could fall anywhere inside it and could still move, which is worth knowing before you commit to a start date somewhere else.

Those two letters repeat several passages word for word, among them the reason, the line that the employees aren't covered by a collective bargaining agreement and that bumping rights don't exist, and the timing warning. Each covers RRD's entire operation at its address, so for the people there the whole workplace was closing, not a share of its jobs, and no position at either address was left to keep. Each also attaches a list of the affected job titles with the number of people in each, and Plainfield's list still carried the heading "RRD Howard, SD Site Closure," dated March 4, 2020. If you're holding one of these letters, the job list is worth keeping with it, since it shows which job titles the company included and how many people held each.

RRD's 2021 annual report records employee termination charges for each of 2019, 2020 and 2021 as company-wide accounting charges, not any one person's severance, and ties every year's to announced facility closures, along with reorganizing its selling, general and administrative functions in 2019 and 2021, closing its Chilean operations in 2020 and relocating a printing facility in Shenzhen, China, in 2019. The severance protection written into the 2022 sale covered only the first year after the sale closed, under the terms the Chatham merger proxy lays out. If a package is offered at your closing, keeping the offer, any release it asks you to sign and the closing letter together gives you one file of what the company put in writing.

Older notices can sit under other names. Seven of the RRD-linked filings in our WARN tracker came from Moore Wallace, Wallace Computer Services, a Moore Business Forms division or Banta before RRD bought them, and a 2024 New Jersey notice was filed as RR Donnelly & Sons, so a search under those names turns them up. RRD spun off LSC Communications and Donnelley Financial Solutions on October 1, 2016, and LSC's assets went to a third-party buyer in September 2020 after its Chapter 11 filing, the annual report notes. RRD also sold its logistics businesses between 2018 and 2020, DLS Worldwide among them, though the two 1990s notices filed as RR Donnelley Logistics still count as RRD's because that filing company stayed with RRD.

For an unemployment claim, the state's rules are on our pages for Illinois, which holds the most RRD notices in the tracker, and for California, Indiana and Texas, where its three since 2025 were filed. The Oregon, North Carolina and New Jersey pages cover the other states where RRD has filed since 2022.

A sourced history of RR Donnelley layoffs

• January 2026, RR Donnelley gives notice of Newark closing

  RR Donnelley's January 14 notice covered 70 employees in a permanent closing at 6955 Mowry Avenue in Newark, effective March 31, California's WARN report shows.

• March 2025, RR Donnelley closing Seymour, Indiana plant

  RR Donnelley's March 5 notice listed 96 workers at its Seymour plant, with first layoffs on May 3 and the closing permanent, and answered no on separation benefits, a union and bumping rights, as Indiana's posted summary records.

• January 2025, RR Donnelley closing Nacogdoches, Texas location

  RR Donnelley was permanently shutting its Nacogdoches location "due to changing market conditions," with 88 employees to be laid off beginning March 15, none of them under a collective bargaining agreement, KETK reported.

• May 2024, RR Donnelley closing West Caldwell, New Jersey site

  RR Donnelley was letting go of 201 employees and closing its West Caldwell location, a document production and mailing site, under a notice to New Jersey's labor department, according to news reports relayed by Nip Impressions on May 15.

• April 2024, RR Donnelley closing Clinton, Illinois site

  RR Donnelley gave Illinois notice on April 3 of a closing at Clinton covering 76 jobs, the notice in our WARN tracker shows.

• March 2024, RR Donnelley closing Conover, North Carolina plant

  RR Donnelley was permanently closing its Conover plant on Reese Drive Southwest, which its notice to the state put down to "changing market conditions," with layoffs expected May 19 and as many as 82 employees affected, WSOC reported.

• March 2023, RR Donnelley closing Plainfield, Indiana operation

  RR Donnelley planned to permanently shut its operation at 381 Airtech Parkway in Plainfield, letting as many as 79 employees go over 14 days from May 14, its letter to Indiana said.

• July 2022, RR Donnelley closing Medford, Oregon printing operations

  RR Donnelley told Oregon it would permanently close its printing operations on South Pacific Highway in Medford, with as many as 97 employees let go between September 11 and December 31, 2022, as its letter to Oregon put it.

• June 2011, RR Donnelley closing East Point, Georgia plant

  RR Donnelley set its East Point plant to close July 23, costing more than 100 jobs, and about 40 positions at its Chamblee plant were reportedly made available for RRD employees, according to Printing Impressions, citing the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

• February 1993, RR Donnelley Chicago closing notice

  RR Donnelley & Sons Company gave Illinois notice on February 2 of a closing in Chicago with 1,040 jobs, as our WARN tracker records it.

What to do if you're laid off from RR Donnelley

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