Ohio WARN Notices: Six Employers to Cut Over 450 Jobs

Six Ohio employers filed WARN notices in September 2026, putting more than 450 workers on notice of layoffs or closures, according to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.

The single largest filing comes from logistics. Ardor Delivery Services, an Amazon delivery service partner based in Centerville, accounted for 179 of the affected positions — roughly 39% of the month's total. That one filing signals concentrated risk for last-mile delivery drivers and warehouse-adjacent roles in the Dayton area, where a single contractor's contract loss can displace a large crew at once.

Manufacturing drove the rest of the month's volume. PJ Trailer, a trailer and truck bed company in Mount Orab, filed notice covering 116 workers, making it the second-largest action. Perstorp Polyols, a chemical manufacturer in Toledo, reported 50 affected positions. Powers and Sons, an auto parts manufacturer in Montpelier, reported 53.

Two filings were smaller but no less final for the workers involved. Marc Glassman, Inc. — the discount drugstore and grocery chain known as Marc's — will close its Parma location by November 2026 and lay off 55 employees. Michigan Sugar Company, an agricultural cooperative that processes beet sugar in Toledo, reported 7 affected workers.

For the individual worker, the practical takeaway is procedural. A WARN notice — formally the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification — requires employers to give workers at least 60 days' advance notice before their layoff date, per the U.S. Department of Labor. In Ohio, filings must be submitted when an employer has 100 or more full-time employees, the layoffs will last more than six months, and at least 50 full-time employees are affected. That 60-day window is not severance, but it is a measurable runway: workers named in these September filings can time benefit elections, job searches and retraining enrollment against a known separation date rather than an uncertain one.

The filings also mark where the exposure sits. Four of the six actions — PJ Trailer, Perstorp Polyols, Powers and Sons and Michigan Sugar — are production and processing operations, consistent with the state's industrial employment base. The Ardor filing stands apart as the month's only logistics action, but at 179 workers it outweighs any manufacturing notice.

Ohio's WARN filings run monthly, and the department updates its public notice page as new submissions arrive, meaning October's figures will show whether September's total was a spike or part of a sustained trend.