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Santa Cruz County WARN Layoff Notices

12 WARN filings on record affecting 867 workers in Santa Cruz County, California.

Sourced from California EDD public WARN records. Updated 2026-08-13.

What is on record

Every mass layoff, closure, or relocation notice filed with the California Employment Development Department for Santa Cruz County, as published by the state. Kcalbin resolves employer names that the state files under multiple site or building labels, so one employer counts once.

Filings on record

12

Distinct WARN notices

Workers affected

867

Sum of reported headcounts

Employers

12

After name resolution

Coverage. California filings run from April 2023 to the present and are rebuilt from the CA EDD fiscal-year archives plus the live rolling report, refreshed hourly. 2023 is a partial year (records begin 25 April 2023). See methodology.

Labor market context

WARN filings say what an employer has announced. They do not say what the surrounding labor market can absorb. Santa Cruz County's own unemployment figures, from the BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics series, are shown alongside for that reason.

Unemployment rate

5.1%

BLS LAUS, 2026-05

Labor force

136,406

Civilian labour force, same period

Range, last 12 months

5.1%–7.2%

Monthly low to high

Most-affected employers in Santa Cruz County

Ranked by number of separate notices filed. Site-level variants of the same employer are combined.

EmployerFilingsWorkers
Yerba Madre Co., LLC11
Yerba Mate Co., LLC11
Brite Horizons Nonpublic School159
Cepheid12
Downtown Streets, Inc19
Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, Inc119
Monterey Mushrooms, LLC1605
Cretex Medical Component and Device Technologies, Inc. dba196
Aura Management Co111
Lockheed Martin Space11
The Apothecarium17
Kitayama Brothers Inc156

Filings by year

YearFilings
20231
20245
20253
20263

Recent filings

Most recent first, by effective layoff date.

CompanyWorkersLayoff dateNotice date
Yerba Madre Co., LLC12026-09-012026-07-27
Yerba Mate Co., LLC12026-09-012026-07-27
Brite Horizons Nonpublic School592026-06-302026-04-30
Cepheid22025-12-312025-10-29
Downtown Streets, Inc92025-10-312025-08-29
Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, Inc192025-09-242025-07-24
Monterey Mushrooms, LLC6052024-12-092024-09-17
Cretex Medical Component and Device Technologies, Inc. dba962024-07-262024-04-23
Aura Management Co112024-07-162024-04-18
Lockheed Martin Space12024-06-102024-04-09
The Apothecarium72024-01-122023-11-13
Kitayama Brothers Inc562023-12-232023-10-23

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