Slidell, LA jobs, layoffs and employers

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- Service Manager | Full Service Busy RestaurantGecko Hospitality
- Inside Sales RepresentativeEmpower Brands
- COMMERCIAL BANKER IJD Bank
- 2027 - Manufacturing Engineer I (Crewed Land) - Slidell, LATextron
- Business Development ManagerEmpower Brands
- Associate Loan Originator, NEPlainsCapital Bank
- Loan Originator NEPlainsCapital Bank
- Banking Center ManagerHome Bank, National Association
- Area ManagerAmazon
Employers hiring most in Slidell
- Empower Brands2 open roles
- PlainsCapital Bank2 open roles
- Amazon1 open role
- Gecko Hospitality1 open role
- Home Bank, National Association1 open role
- JD Bank1 open role
- Textron1 open role
Slidell layoffs
No layoff notices naming Slidell 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.
St. Tammany Parish outlook: Building
Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.
- Private-sector jobs up 4.9% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 5.3% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.6%, down 0.5 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+1,885 jobs), hotels & food (+793 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: retail (−759 jobs)
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Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Slidell. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
Laid off in Louisiana? How to file for unemployment in Louisiana (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- First Planning District Workforce Development Board
Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Tammany
St.Tammany-Tri-Parish Works
Slidell · Comprehensive · 985-646-3940
Mon-Wed. and Fri 8:00 am-4:30:pm; Thur. 8:00am-3:00pm
St. Tammany Parish economy
3.6%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.1% the month before
130,101
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
269,331
people in St. Tammany Parish
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$79,277
median household income
Source: Census ACS
44%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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See your options after a layoffSources: Layoff notices from Louisiana’s published record; job counts from our live job board, taken from employers’ own career sites; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers; Census Bureau and BLS for county figures. Louisiana unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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