Ceryx Management LLC California Layoffs 2025: What Employees Should Know

What the filing says

These are the details as Ceryx Management LLC reported them to the state. The EDD publishes every notice, and this page reflects the data as of Jul 31, 2026. All 15 are listed below; the table scrolls.

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.

Ceryx Management 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.

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.

The filings correspond to staffing at Soul Housing's recuperative care facilities: Fresnoland reported that Ceryx Management provides staffing services to Soul Housing, the Los Angeles-based operator whose medical shelter on Blackstone Avenue in Fresno abruptly closed on October 7, 2025 after Soul Housing's contract with its medical insurance provider ended, cutting off reimbursement for its services.

Fresnoland reported that the layoff notice covered about 90% of the workforce and that employees received roughly 12 hours' advance notice, with Ceryx stating in the notice that "the events leading to this layoff were not reasonably foreseeable."

LAist reported that insurer Health Net terminated its contract with Soul Housing effective October 8, 2025, and that Soul Housing, which had operated 16 recuperative care facilities across Los Angeles County with more than 1,300 beds, was reduced to three facilities in the county — consistent with the many Los Angeles-area sites in the filings.

Sources: Fresnoland (opens in a new tab) · Fresnoland (opens in a new tab) · LAist (opens in a new tab)

What the numbers show

• The filings name 5 locations: Fresno, Van Nuys, Los Angeles, Gardena and Los Angels.
• They cover 15 separate addresses rather than a single site, so co-workers at different locations may have received different dates.
• At least one notice here is dated 28 days after the last day of work it reports. Notices are sometimes filed or amended after the fact, so this describes the paperwork rather than when anyone was told.
• By headcount it sits in the top 30% of the 593 employer layoffs tracked here.
• The 132 workers leaving Ceryx Management LLC re-enter a job market where Los Angeles County unemployment stood at 5.3% in June 2026, above the 5.2% statewide rate (Bureau of Labor Statistics, not seasonally adjusted).
• All 15 notices are dated within a single month, October 2025, which reads as one event reported site by site rather than a rolling reduction.

These are counts and comparisons drawn from the published filings, not findings about Ceryx Management.

Free job-search help near the affected sites

America's Job Center of California is the state's no-cost network for laid-off workers: help filing and keeping unemployment benefits, federally funded retraining, and résumé and interview coaching. Your WARN notice may name one; these are the closest to the sites in these filings.

Locations and hours change — confirm before visiting, or find another center with the EDD's center locator (opens in a new tab). Directory: U.S. Department of Labor, Jul 31, 2026; distances are straight-line from the address in the filing.

Other layoffs filed in Los Angeles County around the same time

158 employers have WARN notices on file in Los Angeles County, covering 17,303 workers. These filed within about a quarter of this one.

• Amazon6,938 workers
• Meta Platforms, Inc.4,150 workers
• Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission639 workers
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory543 workers
• Children's Hospital Los Angeles439 workers
• Anthony International398 workers

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