Massachusetts layoffs: layoff notices and recent layoff list
The short version
Employers filed 20 layoff notices in Massachusetts in the last 12 months, naming 2,587 people. The most recent was filed Oct 29, 2026.
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Massachusetts jobs picture
The latest White Collar Employment Report names only the states with the largest and smallest changes, and Massachusetts is not among them this month. See Massachusetts’s figures at the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Source: BLS State Employment and Unemployment, August 2026 (Sep 18, 2026), via the NextChapter White Collar Employment Report. Seasonally adjusted.
Notices in the last 12 months
Massachusetts layoffs by industry
Massachusetts layoffs by county and city
Each county and city page shows its layoff notices next to local unemployment, open jobs, the largest employers, colleges, the workforce board and job centers.
Local workforce boards
The public workforce boards serving the areas in these notices. Their American Job Centers offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
MassHire Boston Workforce Board
For notices in Boston
Find a job centerBoard page: centers, jobs and noticesBoard website
MassHire Bristol Workforce Board
For notices in Taunton and Wareham
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MassHire Central Region Workforce Board
For notices in Northbridge and Watertown, Worcester and Leominster
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MassHire Greater Lowell Workforce Board
For notices in Billerica
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MassHire Merrimack Valley Workforce Board
For notices in Lawrence
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MassHire North Central Workforce Board
For notices in Fitchburg, Leominster
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Metro North Regional Employment Board
For notices in Cambridge
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Metro South/West Workforce Board, Inc.
For notices in Westwood, Waltham, Littleton, Franklin
Find a job centerBoard page: centers, jobs and noticesBoard website
If you were laid off in Massachusetts
- Massachusetts unemployment benefits and severance rules: amounts, weeks and how to file
- What to do after a layoff
- Get new Massachusetts notices by RSS · all feeds
- Keeping your health coverage: COBRA and the marketplace
- COBRA vs ACA in Massachusetts: which costs less
- Massachusetts rapid response: who to call after a layoff notice
- Massachusetts workforce boards (16)
- American Job Centers in Massachusetts
- Massachusetts economic development organizations
- Massachusetts colleges: retraining and career services
- Layoff deadlines: what to do and by when, from your last day
- Unemployment benefit estimator: about how much you could get
- Severance calculator: what an offer is worth after taxes
Coverage: 20 Massachusetts notices on file, filed Jul 15, 2026 to Oct 29, 2026, collected daily from the state’s published layoff record (www.mass.gov). A state may publish late or leave out worker counts, so this is a floor rather than a count of every layoff. States generally require a notice only from employers with 100 or more workers. See the national tracker for how we collect notices.