Derby, CT jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Derby

• Grant AccountantCreative Financial Staffing
• Chief Financial OfficerGriffin Health
• Manufacturing EngineerNESCO
• Assistant Crew Operations CoordinatorYale University

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Employers hiring most in Derby

1. Creative Financial Staffing1 open role
2. Griffin Health1 open role
3. NESCO1 open role
4. Yale University1 open role

Derby layoffs

No layoff notices naming Derby in the last 12 months are on file. The WARN Act covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.

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Naugatuck Valley Planning Region outlook: Steady

Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.

• Population up 3.2% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 5.7%, up 1.2 points from a year ago

Local job-market news

Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Derby. Each link goes to the publisher.

• Blasius Closes Stores in Brookfield, Torringtonclassiccars.ride-ct.com · Oct 30, 2026
• CT AI Workforce Training: 1 in 52 Jobs, $20M Hub [2026]shattered.io · Oct 29, 2026
• Connecticut workforce program aims to give workers experience with AI toolsWTNH on MSN · Oct 28, 2026
• Waterbury restaurant to close after decades of serving downtownFOX61 · Oct 20, 2026
• Community to rally for more Hartford Public School funding amid layoffsWTNH · Oct 17, 2026
• Ross Dress for Less expands in Connecticut amid other closuresThe News-Times · Oct 13, 2026
• Teacher layoffs a possibility with proposed New Britain school budgetWTNH · Oct 11, 2026
• Teacher layoffs possible as New Britain school board finalizes next year’s budgetWTNH · Oct 10, 2026

Learn and get funded in Derby

• Which AI skills each kind of job asks for, with the pay premium.
• Your local workforce board and American Job Centers: training vouchers and re-employment help.
• Grants and funding for job seekers, ranked for your state and situation.
• Unemployment benefits by state, if you are between jobs.

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Derby. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

Laid off in Connecticut? How to file for unemployment in Connecticut (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).

• Capital Workforce Partners Development Board

  Towns: Andover, Avon, Berlin, Bloomfield, Bolton, Bristol, Burlington, Canton, East Granby, East Hartford, East Windsor, Ellington, Enfield, Farmington, Glastonbury, Granby, Hartford, Hebron, Manchester, Marlborough, New Britain, Newington, Plainville, Plymouth, Rocky Hill, Simsbury, Somers, South Windsor, Southington, Stafford, Suffield, Tolland, Vernon, West Hartford, Wethersfield, Windsor, Windsor Locks

• Northwest Regional Workforce Investment Board

  Towns: Barkhamsted, Bethel, Bethlehem, Bridgewater, Brookfield, Canaan, Cheshire, Colebrook, Cornwall, Danbury, Groshen, Hartland, Harwinton, Kent, Litchfield, Middlebury, Morris, Naugatuck, New Fairfield, New Hartford, New Milford, Newtown, Norfolk, North Canaan, Prospect, Redding, Ridgefield, Roxbury, Salisbury, Sharon, Sherman, Southbury, Thomaston, Torrington, Warren, Washington, Waterbury, Watertown, Winchester, Wolcott, Woodbury

• The WorkPlace Inc.

  Towns: Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Bridgeport, Darien, Derby, Easton, Fairfield, Greenwich, Monroe, New Canaan, Norwalk, Oxford, Seymour, Shelton, Stamford, Stratford, Trumbull, Weston, Westport, Wilton

• American Job Center - Derby

  Derby · Affiliate · 203-734-3443

  Monday - Friday 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Naugatuck Valley Planning Region economy

• 5.7%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  4.5% the month before

• 233,924

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 452,303

  people in Naugatuck Valley Planning Region

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $86,365

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 42%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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