Texas Now Faces A New Wave of Massive Layoffs

March 20, 2024

Texas now faces a new wave of massive layoffs as more businesses file WARN notices advising of upcoming job cuts.

It’s important to note that under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, an employer with more than 100 full-time workers must provide a 60-day notice before laying off 50 or more people at a single site.

This week, the following two more businesses have filed notices with the Texas Workforce Commission advising of impending job losses.

Stanley Black and Decker will be laying off 127 employees in Mission on May 10. In March 2023, they laid off 175 employees in Fort Worth.
Signify, the world’s largest lighting manufacturer, is laying off 109 staff in San Marcos on May 16th.

So far for 2024, there has been 4,064 layoffs in Texas across 35 businesses according to the latest WARN data.

Below is a list of businesses who have advised of upcoming layoffs in Texas this year:

Gulf Stevedoring Services, LLC. 29 job cuts by 4/30.
Denbury Inc. 111 job cuts by 4/30.
Expedia Group Inc. (Austin). 64 job cuts by 5/1.
Daifuku Services America Corp. 38 job cuts by 4/22.
Oldcastle Infrastructure. 64 job cuts by 4/22.
Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers 2024. 435 job cuts by 4/29.
WFS Express, Inc. Kelley Field. 65 job cuts by 4/10.
Shearer’s Foods LLC. 176 job cuts by 3/31.
Mattison Pathology, LLP dba Avero Diagnotics. 103 job cuts by 12/8.
American Airlines. 321 job cuts by 3/30.
Hollingsworth LLC. 153 job cuts by 3/31.
Vroom. 283 job cuts by 3/23.
Vroom-Meadows Place #2. 54 job cuts by 3/23.
Longwood Elastomers. 52 job cuts by 4/1.
Panera Bread. 84 job cuts by 3/24.
Vroom-Sam Houston Parkway. 178 job cuts by 3/23.
NexTier Completion Solutions Inc. – San Angelo II. 104 job cuts by 4/17.

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Also Read: A Massive Company Now Announces Unexpected Layoffs in Arkansas

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A massive cosmetics company is now closing this spring as it exits Korea, according to the retailer’s website for the region.

Sephora will begin phasing out its online, mobile app and store operations in Korea starting May 6, which will also be the last day customers can place an online order, per a translation of an FAQ about the closure.

Loyalty members will lose any unused points and have their information deleted at that time as well.

Sephora’s customer service team in Korea will continue operating until mid-August for returns and refunds.

The Sephora Korea site lists five stores in the country. An about page on Sephora’s Singapore website boasts “an expanding base of over 200 stores” in the Asia Pacific region, which also includes China, Australia, Thailand and other countries.

A Sephora spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment on Sephora’s exit from the market, per Retail Dive.

The news comes as Sephora’s U.S. rival Ulta recently announced an expansion into Mexico, planned for 2025.

Competition between the two has heated up over the past few years as both retailers pursue large-scale shop-in-shop partnerships — Sephora with department store Kohl’s and Ulta with mass merchant Target.

Sephora has recently shaken up leadership in some of its geographical regions, naming the next CEO of its North America region in September.

The company’s head of Greater China also reportedly left the company in January, though the retailer would not confirm the move.

Sephora CEO Guillaume Motte himself is a relative newcomer, taking over the top post in January last year.

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Also Read: A Massive Cosmetics Company Now Closes in New York

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