WARN — Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act Federal law requiring 60-day advance notice of large layoffs or plant closures100+ employee firms, 50+/one-third site thresholds — WARN data captures only a FRACTION of layoffs; distributed cuts are invisibleOfficial source ↗ Act layoff notice filed by Smithfield in VA on Oct 28, 2019. Public state workforce agency record." />
WARN — Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act Federal law requiring 60-day advance notice of large layoffs or plant closures100+ employee firms, 50+/one-third site thresholds — WARN data captures only a FRACTION of layoffs; distributed cuts are invisibleOfficial source ↗ Act · State archive

Smithfield unattributed — matching pending

VA · Newport News, VA · Newport News, VA

Notice date
Oct 28, 2019
Layoff date
Dec 31, 2019
Workers affected
39
Type
Closure
State
VA
Site
Newport News, VA
County
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Source
State archive · agency page
Provenance
state_archive #20171 · run Hire4Real_20260906_093949 · recorded 2026-09-06
Coverage cell
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Names are the ones the state published, often the legal entity rather than the brand. A notice attributed to an employer page links there; an unattributed notice stays here until the identity night matches it (#122 review queue).

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