Major employers signal layoffs in January

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Over 100 employers nationwide have filed notices announcing plans to cut jobs in January 2026, according to WARNTracker.com data. Workers across retail, manufacturing, healthcare, and technology sectors will face job losses as major names, including Amazon, FedEx, and General Motors, implement post-holiday reductions.

The filings come as businesses contend with shifting trade policies, rising labor costs, and operational restructuring. Under federal law, companies must announce mass layoffs at least 60 days before they take effect.

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1. UPS draws First Blood

UPS cuts 68,000 jobs and closes 73 sites in its biggest purge

United Parcel Service is undertaking the most aggressive retrenchment in its history, eliminating 68,000 jobs and closing 73 facilities as it refocuses on profitability and a leaner network. The cuts, described as the largest purge in the company's 118-year existence, cap a multi‑year restructuring that has already reshaped how parcels move across the United States and beyond. I see this as a pivotal moment not just for UPS workers and customers, but for the broader logistics economy that depends on the brown‑and‑gold giant's reach

The scale of a historic purge

The headline numbers are stark. UPS has confirmed plans to eliminate 68,000 jobs and close 73 facilities, a combination that executives themselves frame as the largest purge in the company's 118-year history. That phrase is not hyperbole. Earlier restructuring waves were measured in the tens of thousands of roles, but this new phase folds those earlier cuts into a single, sweeping redesign of the network.


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www.msn.com/en-us/money/economy/ups-cuts-68-000-jobs-and-closes-73-sites-in-its-biggest-purge/ar-AA1TU0uh?ocid=BingNewsSerp

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2. Twenty twenty-six will reap what was sown in Twenty twenty-five.

No more coasting on the efforts of the previous administration and frankly, government. It’s all Trump now.

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3. Kick

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4. US wage growth (3.5%) continues to fall after spiking

during the early days of the pandemic. Benefit growth was actually higher (3.8%). Could companies be anticipating a jump in benefits growth to pay for their part of employees' health insurance which will soon spike because of Republicans cavalier attack on the ACA? Of course the money that hospital corporations, doctors (especially those who are in practices bought by private equity), and other health care providers have been getting from the ACA will have to be made up from somewhere or industry wide layoffs will be needed to maintain profitability.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/eci.pdf