More Layoffs Hit MD As Federal Job Numbers Fall

Employers announced more than 635 layoffs in Maryland in February, as federal officials reported a decrease of 92,000 jobs nationally for the month.

So far in 2026, there have been 1,723 layoffs announced in Maryland by 25 different employers, according to the state's WARN notice archive.

Under the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification law, a company with 100 employees or more must give workers 60 days' notice of a layoff affecting 50 people or more at a single site.

Maryland companies announcing layoffs in February were:

• Charles River Laboratories Inc., 3600 Cabover Dr., Hanover
  • 20 jobs | Plant closure | Effective March 23
• HGS CX Technologies Inc., statewide
  • 92 jobs | Mass layoff | Effective March 31-April 14
• NFI Interactive Technologies, 81 Belvedere Rd., Perryville
  • 40 jobs | Plant closure | Effective March 30
• LifeBridge Suburban Staffing, 2850 N. Ridge Rd., Ellicott City
  • 23 jobs | Closure | Effective March 7-April 6
• Savage Infrastructure, 354 Table Rock Rd., Oakland
  • 72 jobs | Plant closure | Effective April 7-21
• T. Rowe Price, 1307 Point St., Baltimore
  • 54 jobs | Mass layoff | Effective Feb. 6
• Lowe’s, statewide
  • 5 jobs (remote working in MD) | Mass layoff | Effective April 19-May 1
• Breakthru Beverage Group, 525 Progress Dr., Linthicum Heights
  • 35 jobs | Mass layoff | Effective April 18
• Catalent Maryland Inc., 801 W. Baltimore St. in Baltimore and 7555 Harmans Rd. in Harmans
  • 96 jobs | Mass layoff | Effective April 19
• Hornblower Cruises and Events, 575 S. Charles St., Baltimore
  • 51 jobs | Mass layoff | Effective April 25
• Duality Ventures LLC, 6604 Industrial Ln., Williamsport
  • 98 jobs | Plant closure | Effective March 21
• Viskon-Aire Corporation, 410 Winfield Ave., Salisbury
  
  • 51 jobs | Plant closure | Effective April 13-Sept. 30

The 1,723 layoffs announced in Maryland in January and February were a 17.7 percent decrease over the 2,094 layoffs announced in January and February 2025.

Many layoffs announced in November and December 2025 took effect in February, including Harris Teeter and parent company Kroger, which laid off more than 160 people at the company's Frederick distribution center.

Nationally, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics announced a decrease in jobs on March 6, which it said was affected in part by strike activity in health care. That included a nurses' strike in California, the New York Times reported.

As a result, the federal unemployment rate rose slightly to 4.4 percent, from 4.3 percent in January, federal officials said. Job losses were highest in the information sector and in federal employment, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said.

In Maryland, 2,202 people filed initial unemployment claims in the week ending Feb. 28, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. The state unemployment rate was 4.2 percent in December, the most recent figures released by federal authorities.