American Woodmark Corporation has told Indiana it will lay off 207 workers in Gas City, with the layoffs taking effect December 5, 2026. The Indiana Department of Workforce Development lists the notice on its current WARN notices page with a notice date of October 5, 2026, in the manufacturing sector. The file attached to the listing is titled “Masterbrand-American Woodmark Corporation WARN.”
WARN is the federal law that requires larger employers to give advance warning of mass layoffs and plant closings. A layoff tracker record of the same notice also lists 207 affected employees and December 5, 2026 as the effective date.
For the 207 workers and their families, the practical questions are timing and income: the layoff date is 61 days after the notice date, and what happens to a paycheck after December 5 depends on severance, benefits and unemployment insurance.
December 5 is the date 207 Gas City jobs end, and it falls five days after the November 30 date Indiana lists for ZF Active Safety’s Lafayette plant.
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What Indiana’s listing shows
The state table has columns for company, city, number of affected workers, notice date, the layoff or closure date, industry code and notice type. American Woodmark’s row reads Gas City, 207 workers, October 5, 2026, and December 5, 2026, in manufacturing, with the notice type coded LO. Other entries on the list, such as ZF Active Safety’s in Lafayette, carry the code CL instead.
The listing gives no job titles, no shift information and no statement from the company about why it is cutting positions. It does not say whether the 207 positions are all of the workers at the Gas City site or part of them.
What WARN requires of an employer
The U.S. Department of Labor’s WARN page describes the law as helping ensure advance notice in cases of qualified plant closings and mass layoffs, and points to 20 CFR Part 639 for the regulations. Those federal rules cover employers with 100 or more employees, not counting part-time workers.
Notice must be given at least 60 calendar days before a planned plant closing or mass layoff. A mass layoff is a reduction in force at a single site that affects at least 33 percent of active employees and at least 50 employees in any 30-day period; the 33 percent test does not apply when 500 or more employees are affected. A plant closing is a shutdown that causes employment loss for 50 or more employees in a 30-day period.
Notice goes to each affected employee, or to the representative of the employees where there is one, and also to the state dislocated worker unit and the chief elected official of the local government where the layoff will happen. The notice has to be specific: it must give the site name and address, a company contact, whether the layoff is permanent or temporary, and the expected date of the first separation. A notice slipped into a regular paycheck does not satisfy the rule.
Counting from October 5 to December 5 gives 61 days, one day more than the minimum.
Where the Gas City listing sits in Indiana’s 2026 list
American Woodmark is the second Gas City employer on the state’s 2026 list. Packaging Corporation of America is listed with 72 workers in Gas City, a notice date of August 31, 2026 and the code CL. Both entries are in the manufacturing sector.
Elsewhere on the list, ZF Active Safety & Electronics US LLC is listed with 133 workers in Lafayette, a notice date of September 30 and a date of November 30, 2026. PMG Indiana in Columbus listed 150 workers on September 2, and Postal Center International in Brownsburg listed 151 on August 13.
The same head count appears earlier in 2026: Thyssenkrupp Presta North America in Terre Haute is listed with 207 workers and a notice date of June 30, 2026. Owens Corning in Walkerton (130 workers, July 21) and Forest River in Bristol (105 workers, July 17) are also on the list for the summer, and the state table shows larger entries earlier in the year, including 586 workers at humano LLC in Avon on June 17.
Planning for a December 5 layoff date
Indiana’s unemployment insurance program pays benefits to workers who are out of work through no fault of their own, according to the Department of Workforce Development’s unemployment page. Claims are filed through the state’s Uplink claimant self-service site, and the department has an identity-verification step, a work search page and a claimant handbook that sets out the weekly benefit and work search rules.
Workers on the list should gather the layoff notice, recent pay stubs, the employer’s name and address, and any severance or benefits paperwork the company provides. Ask the employer in writing what happens to health coverage after December 5 and whether any accrued time off is paid out.
The Labor Department’s WARN office can be reached at warn.inquiries@dol.gov or 202-693-3079 with questions about whether a notice met the federal rules. The state table, which the Department of Workforce Development says covers notices going back to 2008, is the place to check whether the December 5 date or the head count changes, and the department offers an alert signup for new postings.
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This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by The Financial Wire’s editorial team.
Warren Cohen is a finance writer based in Phoenix, Arizona, covering personal finance topics including credit, banking, and beginner investing. He earned his degree in business administration from Arizona State University and began his career working in consumer finance, where he gained direct experience with lending and credit systems. He now writes for personal finance websites and fintech platforms, focusing on clear, practical content that helps readers make informed financial decisions.
