Vermont is the kind of state where layoff data hides in plain sight. The state reports a handful of WARN filings each year — never the torrent you see in California or Texas — but when a dairy processor or a hospital system cuts a hundred workers in a state of 650,000 people, it lands differently. Here is what the WARN record actually shows for Vermont in 2026.

The headline numbers

As of October 17, 2026, Layoff Atlas's imported archive holds 70 non-cancelled Vermont WARN records reporting 5,632 affected workers. Twelve notices carry no worker count at all, so the real reported total is likely a bit higher.

For 2026 specifically: 6 notices reporting 677 workers. That compares with 6 notices and 361 workers in 2025, and 4 notices and 229 workers in 2024. By either measure, 2026 is running heavier than the last two years — the count of workers reported in just six filings is nearly triple 2024's full-year total.

These figures describe reported plans, not confirmed job losses. A WARN notice is an employer's advance filing about a qualifying layoff or closure; some announced cuts get scaled back, delayed, or never happen, while other job losses never trigger a filing at all.

The six 2026 filings

Every Vermont filing in 2026 so far comes from the food, beverage, and healthcare sectors:

  • Perrigo, Georgia — 162 workers (filed Apr 28, 2026). The largest Vermont filing of the year.
  • University of Vermont Health, Burlington — 142 workers (filed Jun 9, 2026).
  • Maple Ridge Memory Care and Lodge, Essex Junction — 126 workers (filed Jan 30, 2026).
  • Franklin Foods, Enosburg Falls — 99 workers (filed May 28, 2026).
  • St. Albans Creamery, Saint Albans — 81 workers (filed Jun 17, 2026).
  • Calmont Beverage, Barre — 67 workers (filed Jan 22, 2026).

Food processing and dairy show up three times — Perrigo, Franklin Foods, and St. Albans Creamery — reflecting Vermont's concentration in food and beverage production. Healthcare accounts for the other two large entries.

The biggest caveat: Vermont has no official WARN source in the archive

Here is the detail that matters most for interpreting Vermont's numbers. In the last 365 days, the imported archive contains zero eligible official filings for Vermont. All 70 records in the archive are attributed secondary records — drawn from a licensed secondary archive, not pulled directly from a Vermont state labor agency feed.

What does that mean in practice? Vermont does not currently publish an official, machine-readable WARN log the way states like California, New York, or Illinois do. The records above are the best available secondary accounting, but the coverage is thinner and harder to verify than in states with healthy official sources. Vermont also has zero notices with future effective dates right now — nothing currently on the calendar, though that may reflect reporting gaps rather than a genuinely empty pipeline.

It also means comparisons to big-state numbers need extra care. Washington leads the national tracker at 16,855 reported workers across the current 90-day window; Vermont's 2026 total of 677 is small by comparison, but Vermont's entire workforce is roughly 330,000 people. Per-capita, a 162-worker Perrigo filing registers more in Vermont than a similar filing would in Los Angeles.

What to watch

Two things are worth tracking into the end of 2026:

  1. Whether Vermont's source situation improves. If the state stands up a public WARN listing, the filing count could jump simply because more filings become visible — not because more layoffs are happening. Watch for coverage changes before reading too much into year-over-year moves.
  2. Food and beverage employment. Three of this year's six filings sit in food processing and dairy, sectors that have been restructuring nationally. If another creamery or distributor files before year-end, it would confirm a sector trend rather than isolated incidents.

For now, the story of Vermont layoffs in 2026 is a modest but real uptick — 677 reported workers across six filings — filtered through a state with no official public WARN feed. The numbers are worth knowing, and worth reading with that context attached.

Data source: Layoff Atlas