Stanley Black & Decker is permanently closing its facility in Gallatin, Tennessee, and 116 workers will lose their jobs. The company told the state its layoffs run from Aug. 28 through Dec. 30, 2026. Workers who are still on the payroll are heading into the holidays with a firm end date.
What the state notice says
The company filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, known as a WARN notice, with the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development on June 24, according to the state’s WARN memo. The memo lists the site as 241 Commerce Way in Gallatin and calls the action a permanent closure. The final anticipated date is Dec. 30.
WARN is a federal rule that requires larger employers to give advance notice of mass layoffs and plant closings. Here the notice gave roughly two months before the first separations on Aug. 28. The memo does not say how many workers leave on each date, only that the closure runs in stages through the end of December…