MD Layoffs Top 3.4K In Recent Months As Major Closings, Job Cuts Hit

The past three months have seen mounting job losses across Maryland as major companies close stores, plants and other facilities.

In the past three months, there have been 3,452 layoffs reported to the Maryland Department of Labor, according to WARN notices filed with the state.

The March–May period accounts for roughly 74% of all affected workers reported in the 2026 WARN log so far.

Among the major companies that have announced layoffs in recent months is Diamond Transportation Services, a major school transportation contractor in Prince George's County. The company reported 571 layoffs in May due to a plant closure.

Meanwhile, Republic National Distributing Co., one of the nation's largest wine and spirits distributors, announced in April that it would lay off 318 employees in Maryland amid a restructuring tied to the sale of operations in several states to Reyes Beverage Group.

Here is a look at other major layoffs reported in the past three months:

CBRE Government & Defense Services

• Location: Bethesda
• Notice date: April 29
• Type: Mass layoff, no recall
• Employees affected: 174

The affected workers were tied to operations at the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda.

Sibley-Suburban Home Health Agency

• Location: Bethesda
• Notice date: May 6
• Type: Plant closure
• Employees affected: 163

The closure affects Potomac Home Health Care and related home-support operations. Among healthcare-related WARN filings in Maryland this year, it ranks among the largest.

Leidos

• Location: Windsor Mill
• Notice date: April 6
• Type: Mass layoff, no recall
• Employees affected: 156

Leidos was one of several defense and government contractors filing WARN notices this spring.

Tishcon Corp.

• Location: Salisbury
• Notice date: May 4
• Type: Plant closure
• Employees affected: 134

This was one of the largest manufacturing-related WARN notices during the period and one of the largest layoffs on the Eastern Shore.

Panera

• Location: Jessup
• Notice date: March 17
• Type: Plant closure
• Employees affected: 118

Unlike retail restaurant layoffs, this filing involved a production and distribution operation in Jessup.

Crothall Healthcare

• Location: Salisbury
• Notice date: April 29
• Type: Mass layoff, no recall
• Employees affected: 109

Crothall's workers were performing services at TidalHealth Peninsula Regional Hospital, making it another notable healthcare-sector filing in the period.

A notable trend in the March–May WARN notices is that many of the largest filings fall into one of three categories: transportation and logistics, federal contractors and government services, and healthcare. Combined, those sectors account for a substantial share of the workers affected by WARN notices.

However, layoffs this year are down significantly from the same period in 2025. About 4,644 workers have been affected by WARN notices so far in 2026, down from 7,606 workers in the first five months of 2025.

Maryland's unemployment rate sits at 4.4 percent, according to the latest available data. The national unemployment rate is at 4.3 percent.

See more Maryland WARN notices here.

The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, or WARN, requires employers with 100 or more employees to provide 60 days’ advance written notice of plant closings or mass layoffs.