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What VF Corporation layoffs have meant for employees

Martinsville shows how long one of VF's closing schedules ran. VF made the decision in May 2024, Fashion Dive reported, and the same outlet's January 2025 report said the layoffs there had begun that month, ahead of a closing planned for March. If a closing notice reaches your site, the time from the notice's date to its effective dates is room to start a job search and weigh any chance to move with the work, instead of doing both in a rush.

Two of VF's moves sent work elsewhere rather than ending it. When VF moved its headquarters from Greensboro, North Carolina, to Denver in 2019, as the Denver Gazette recounted, Alameda's staff were offered relocation, by FashionNetwork's account, and VF said Martinsville's shipping would go to its distribution center in Ontario, California, and a third-party logistics firm. Other cuts left the site running. When VF moved to stop apparel decoration at its Appleton facility in 2017, CBS 58 reported, it said the site would stay open, serving its outdoor brands with accounting, finance, credit and customer service work. If you're offered both a move and severance, it's worth pricing the move, the housing and the commute before setting that cost beside the package, and if your function is ending while the site stays open, a role in one of the staying functions is worth weighing the same way.

At Martinsville, severance came out of bargaining. By a union spokesperson's account to Fashion Dive, the Service Employees International Union had negotiated the Martinsville package, and anything more about the closing or where the work went would have to come from VF. Reinvent's own charges were mostly severance and employee-related benefits, 76% of them, but that's a company total. If a union represents you, it's the party placed to say how any package it bargained applies to your job. If you're handed individual terms instead, it's worth weighing them on their own figures rather than against VF's company-wide charges, and negotiating a severance agreement covers the terms people push back on most when a release is attached.

The reorganizations came as company decisions rather than site closings. VF put its late-2023 eliminations under Reinvent, and the 2025 work was a reorganization of select commercial functions worldwide. At Vans' headquarters, the Orange County Business Journal reported, it reached product managers, buyers and designers. If one of those rounds took your job, VF's own description, reorganizing select commercial functions globally, gives you an accurate way to describe the cut to an interviewer, and there's more on wording it in how to explain a layoff.

VF's notices haven't all gone in under VF's name. VF Outdoor filed Martinsville's and the older Alameda, Carlsbad and Wisconsin notices, Vans filed as Vans HQ in 2023 and as Van's Corporate Headquarters in 2025, the Santa Fe Springs center filed under its own name, and VF Corporation filed for the Philadelphia stores. If a notice covered your job, you can look it up in our WARN tracker under whichever of those names fits your site, and in the state where you worked.

For an unemployment claim, California unemployment benefits, Virginia unemployment benefits and Pennsylvania unemployment benefits match the states where VF's recent notices went, and Colorado unemployment benefits matches the Denver headquarters, which had about 1,000 VF employees in 2023 by published reports the Gazette cited.

A sourced history of VF Corporation layoffs

• January to May 2025, commercial reorganization and Vans headquarters cuts

  VF confirmed in January that it had begun reorganizing select commercial functions worldwide, Fashion Dive reported, and the Orange County Business Journal counted 400 company-wide cuts announced by May 1, among them 82 jobs at Vans' Costa Mesa headquarters under an April 29 state notice effective June 29.

• January and February 2025, Philadelphia North Face and Vans stores

  Letters VF filed with Pennsylvania, WHYY reported, put 17 layoffs at The North Face store near Rittenhouse Square by the end of January and 12 at the Vans location near 17th and Walnut by the end of February.

• May 2024, decision to close the Martinsville, Virginia, distribution center

  VF decided in May to close the center under Reinvent, Fashion Dive reported, and VF Outdoor's November 15 notice covered 242 employees by January 19, 2025. A VF spokesperson said shipping would move to its Ontario, California, center and a third-party logistics provider, and the Service Employees International Union said it negotiated a severance package.

• December 2023, Santa Fe Springs distribution center closing notices

  Two December 8 closing notices from the VF Santa Fe Springs Distribution Center, logged in our WARN tracker, covered 207 and 48 jobs in California, effective February 23 and March 22, 2024.

• November 2023, Vans headquarters notice in Costa Mesa

  Vans HQ, as the filer appears in our WARN tracker, gave notice on November 29 of 42 layoffs at the Costa Mesa headquarters, effective January 30, 2024.

• November 2023, about 500 salaried positions cut under Reinvent

  About 500 salaried positions across VF were eliminated under its new Reinvent strategy, the company told the Denver Gazette, which put 30 of them in Denver.

• August 2022, 300 layoffs and 300 open positions cut

  VF was laying off 300 employees and cutting 300 open positions, according to an internal email from chief executive Steve Rendle that Outside Business Journal confirmed with the company.

• May 2019, Alameda warranty center cuts in the Denver move

  VF said it would eliminate 52 positions at its Alameda Warranty Center in its headquarters move to Denver, FashionNetwork reported, and a spokeswoman said all Alameda employees were given the chance to relocate. A VF Outdoor closing notice for 52 Alameda jobs is dated May 31.

• April 2017, VF Outdoor cuts in Appleton, Wisconsin

  About 380 jobs were set to go at VF Outdoor's Appleton facility, CBS 58 reported, as VF agreed to sell its Licensed Sports Group to Fanatics and planned to stop apparel decoration there, keeping 370 associates. A JanSport representative said departing employees would get severance packages and outplacement counseling.

What to do if you're laid off from VF Corporation

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. VF Corporation's biggest hubs: California, Virginia, Pennsylvania. 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 VF Corporation's hub states run: California, Virginia, Pennsylvania, 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.