Layoffs in Indiana.

Where Indiana layoffs have been concentrated

On one day in June 2026, two staffing firms filed separately in Avon, humano LLC for 586 jobs and SIMOS Insourcing Solutions for 572. What the record establishes is the date, the town and the two employers. Whether they served the same operation is not something the filings say, and we have not assumed it. What the pairing does illustrate is the structure behind a great deal of Indiana logistics work, performed inside one company's building by another company's employees.

If that is your situation, the employer on your paycheck is the one whose policies, severance and WARN obligations govern you, not the brand on the sign. It also means a contract changing hands can end your job while the work itself continues unchanged, with someone else's badge doing it.

Beyond that pair sits Indiana's older economy. First Brands noticed 345 jobs in Jasper as its bankruptcy moved through the Midwest, AAR Aircraft Services 329 in Indianapolis, Perdue Foods 293 in Washington, and RESRG Automotive 266 in Evansville. Forest River is the only employer to file three separate times in three years.

The companies that keep filing in Indiana

Serial filers are rare in Indiana's record. Employers with three or more notices since 2023.

• Forest River Inc. · 3 notices since 2023

One name on the list, an RV manufacturer, is Indiana in miniature, since the state builds most of the country's recreational vehicles and that industry swings hard with interest rates and fuel prices. When borrowing costs rise, Elkhart County feels it before the national numbers do.

Indiana relies on the federal notice act alone

Indiana never passed a layoff-notice statute. The thirteen states with mini-WARN acts do not include it, which leaves the federal act as the sole source of any advance warning, which begins at 100 employees, runs 60 days, and leans on site-based thresholds.

The staffing structure in the current record interacts with that in a way worth understanding. Federal WARN attaches to the employer, so when a staffing company employs the workers, its headcount and its sites decide coverage, not the client whose building they work in. A large warehouse can shed hundreds of people without the brand that owns the building owing anyone notice.

The state's role is publication and response. Indiana's Department of Workforce Development publishes each filing it takes in, the feed this page draws on, and routes affected workers to the WorkOne system for reemployment services.

What happens after a WARN notice is filed in Indiana

Filings arrive at the Department of Workforce Development, putting WorkOne centers to work, and for the plant-scale events in smaller cities that office is usually where the retraining money is brokered.

Contract and staffing workers should establish two facts early, which company legally employed you and whether that company crossed the federal thresholds. Your pay records answer the first. Be aware that a client company can sometimes share employer status where it directed the work closely, so a short-notice layoff at a large site is worth a lawyer's read rather than a quick conclusion.

Register the Indiana claim at our benefits page early. Indiana's manufacturing wages make the replacement rate worth checking against reality before any spending decision, and the runway math beats guessing.

Use what Indiana owes you

• Confirm the legal name of the company that employed you, especially in warehouse and plant work, since staffing arrangements usually decide whose severance policy and whose WARN obligation apply, and occasionally both companies share it.
• Ask whether the site is continuing under a different contractor, since the same work sometimes reopens under a new employer and prior staff are frequently first in line.
• Lodge the Indiana claim through our state page as soon as work stops, and name dislocated worker funding specifically at WorkOne rather than waiting to be offered it.
• RV and auto-supply workers, these industries move with interest rates, so treat an early filing at one manufacturer as information about the sector rather than about your employer alone.
• Where the employer topped 100 workers nationally and gave short warning, federal back pay is recoverable no matter whose building you reported to.

The biggest layoffs in Indiana's record

Our Indiana archive is one of the deeper ones, opening in 2008, which means it caught the financial crisis as it happened. The 2009 total of 115 notices is second only to 2020's 150, and 2008 added 57 more as the auto supply chain seized.

That crisis shaped the state's employment more than most, and the recovery brought a different mix, distribution centers and contract staffing where component plants used to be. The current record reflects that shift plainly.

What has not changed is the geography of risk. Indiana's layoffs still concentrate in small and mid-size cities where one facility is a meaningful share of local employment, which makes each event heavier locally than its headcount suggests.

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