Dozens of Employees Face Layoffs in Corpus Christi as Company Cuts Back
Disappointing news to start the new year for employees of Horton Automatics in Corpus Christi with the business laying off dozens of employees.
Under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, an employer with more than 100 full-time workers must provide a 60-day notice before laying off 50 or more people at a single site. These must be filed with the Texas Workforce Commission.
Horton Automatics Americas filed a WARN notice advising that 63 employees will be laid off on March 18.
Texas Job Cuts
In 2023, Texas saw 224 companies issue WARN notices, leading to over 24,000 job losses. However, these figures represent only a small portion of the state’s total layoffs.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas states, “WARN layoffs account for only 2.2 percent of the total Texas layoffs reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey.”
This survey indicates that Texas experiences roughly 155,000 layoffs monthly.