Calvary Murrieta Christian School California Layoffs 2026: What Employees Should Know

What the filing says

These are the details as Calvary Murrieta Christian School reported them to the state. The EDD publishes every notice, and this page reflects the data as of Jul 31, 2026.

How much notice the law requires

California's WARN Act requires 60 days of advance written notice before a covered mass layoff. What makes the California version unusual is how few ways out it gives an employer. The only statutory exception is a physical calamity or an act of war. Federal law has three exceptions, including one for unforeseeable business circumstances, and the California Legislature deliberately declined to copy them.

Calvary Murrieta Christian School severance: what to check before you sign

A severance offer is not the same thing as the notice pay the WARN Act describes, and an employer cannot use one to satisfy the other. A release may also give up more than you expect, and an arbitration agreement you signed at hire can affect where a dispute is heard. Read our full guide to the California WARN Act before you decide, and consider having the paperwork looked at.

Two things worth doing this week either way. File for unemployment now, because WARN money does not reduce it. And keep every document, including the notice itself and anything showing when it arrived.

What your notice was required to include

Timing is only half of what Labor Code section 1401 asks for. The notice itself has to contain specific things, and California added most of this list for notices issued on or after January 1, 2026. This notice falls after that date. If you kept your copy, it is worth reading down this list against it.

• Everything federal law requires. A California notice has to carry all the elements the federal WARN Act calls for, including whether the action is permanent, the expected date, and whether bumping rights exist.
• Whether transition help is being coordinated. The notice must say whether the employer is arranging services through your local workforce development board, through some other organization, or not at all.
• A working email and phone number for that board, plus a short standard paragraph pointing you to an America's Job Center of California for help with a resume, interview practice, job searching, and training programs.
• Services arranged within 30 days. If the employer said it would coordinate services, the statute gives it 30 days from the date of the notice to actually set them up.
• CalFresh information. A description of the CalFresh food assistance program, the benefits helpline, and a link to the CalFresh website.
• A working email and phone number for the employer. Not a no-reply address — a route back to a person.

Source: Labor Code section 1401, as amended by SB 617 (Stats. 2025, ch. 229), effective January 1, 2026. A notice missing something on this list is not automatically a violation with a remedy attached, and this page does not say that it is. Whether a gap matters depends on the employer, the action, and what else happened.

Questions people are asking

What has been reported

Press coverage of this layoff, summarized and attributed. This is reporting rather than the filing itself, and we did not independently verify it.

Patch reported that Calvary Murrieta Christian School, a private TK-8 campus operating since 1993, will close permanently at the end of the 2025-26 academic year, affecting 74 school employees; the church board cited financial difficulties and declining enrollment, and the school had previously closed its high school in 2019 amid similar pressures.

In the announcement quoted by Patch, the board said: "After much prayer and thoughtful discernment, the church board has made the difficult decision to bring this season of the school's ministry to a close."

In a June follow-up, Patch reported the campus is now closed but Calvary Murrieta Christian Academy — the church's companion homeschool program serving grades K-12 — continues to operate from an office next to Calvary Chapel Murrieta, with 80 to 90 families expected for the 2026-27 year.

Sources: Patch (opens in a new tab) · Patch (opens in a new tab)

What the numbers show

• The 74 affected positions are in Murrieta.
• The notice is filed as a closure rather than a partial reduction, meaning the site itself is shutting down.
• The 74 workers leaving Calvary Murrieta Christian School re-enter a job market where Riverside County unemployment stood at 5.4% in June 2026, above the 5.2% statewide rate (Bureau of Labor Statistics, not seasonally adjusted).

These are counts and comparisons drawn from the published filings, not findings about Calvary Murrieta Christian School.

Other layoffs filed in Riverside County around the same time

41 employers have WARN notices on file in Riverside County, covering 4,543 workers. These filed within about a quarter of this one.

• TeamOne725 workers
• Riviera Resort & Spa Palm Springs233 workers
• Saks & Company LLC231 workers
• Legacy Supply Chain129 workers
• RSVC Company127 workers
• Propark Mobility123 workers

Listed because they appear in the same county in the same public data. No connection between these employers is implied.