FormFactor, Inc. California Layoffs 2026: What Employees Should Know

What the filing says

These are the details as FormFactor, Inc.reported them to the state. The EDD publishes every notice, and these figures come from the state's report as retrieved on Aug 13, 2026.

How much notice the law requires

California's WARN Act requires 60 days of advance written notice before a covered mass layoff, and its only statutory exception is a physical calamity or an act of war — far narrower than federal law's three. Who is covered and how the thresholds are counted is in our California WARN Act guide.

FormFactor severance: what to check before you sign

A severance offer is not the notice pay the WARN Act describes. Severance you were already promised — in a contract, a handbook, or a union agreement — cannot be used to satisfy that obligation, though Labor Code section 1402 does let an employer reduce a back-pay award by voluntary payments it was never required to make. A release may also give up more than you expect. Justin reviews severance agreements before workers sign. What to check before you decide is in our full guide to the California WARN Act.

Two things worth doing this week either way. File for unemployment now — WARN money does not reduce it, and the filings here run through Dec 18, 2026, so you do not have to wait for your last day. 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. Every notice on this page falls after that date. If you kept your copy, read it against the full six-item checklist in our WARN Act guide — everything federal law requires, whether transition help is being coordinated, working contact details for your workforce board and for the employer itself, and CalFresh information.

Source: Labor Code section 1401, as amended by SB 617, effective January 1, 2026. A notice missing something from that list is not automatically a violation with a remedy attached — whether a gap matters depends on the employer, the action, and what else happened.

Questions people are asking

Where a layoff can raise a legal question

A layoff is lawful on its own, and nothing below is a statement about FormFactor. These are the places California law can still come into play, depending on the facts of your own situation.

• The severance you were asked to signA release can give up claims you did not know you had, and the terms are sometimes negotiable.
• How you were selectedA reduction in force still cannot be used to cut someone for a protected reason such as age, disability, pregnancy, or a complaint they made.
• Your final paycheckCalifornia sets when final wages are due at termination, and unpaid time or accrued vacation can carry penalties on top of the wages.
• The length of the notice periodWhere a notice period turns out to fall short of what the law required, the question usually belongs to everyone in the same position rather than to one person.
• Speaking up before the cutIf you raised a concern about pay, safety, or conduct and were laid off afterwards, the timing is worth looking at.

General information about California law, not legal advice, and reading it does not create an attorney-client relationship.

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.

FormFactor is closing and consolidating its Baldwin Park and Carlsbad, California manufacturing plants, cutting more than 200 jobs, the Los Angeles Times reported. Baldwin Park closes January 30, 2026 with 113 positions eliminated, and Carlsbad follows in mid-December 2026 with 107.

Those losing jobs include technicians, engineers, managers, assemblers and other workers, according to the Times, which reported the semiconductor test company acted after higher import tariffs weighed on its results. Third-quarter 2025 revenue was $202.7 million, down 2.5% year over year.

In its own announcement the company said the restructuring is intended to better align its cost structure with its target financial model and improve gross margins, put the number of employees affected by severance or retention actions at roughly 200 to 300, estimated total charges of $30 million to $40 million, and said the work would be largely complete by the end of December 2026.

Sources: Los Angeles Times (via Yahoo Finance) (opens in a new tab) · The Globe and Mail (opens in a new tab)

What the numbers show

• The filings name 2 locations: Baldwin Park and Carlsbad.
• They cover 2 separate addresses rather than a single site, so co-workers at different locations may have received different dates.
• Every notice is filed as a closure rather than a partial reduction, meaning the sites themselves are shutting down.
• The jobs do not all end on the same day. The filings list 2 separate last days of work, running from January 30, 2026 to December 18, 2026.
• The shortest gap between notice and last day here is 24 days, against a statewide median of 61 days across every notice on file.
• By headcount it sits in the top 15% of the 599 employer layoffs tracked here.
• The 220 workers leaving FormFactor, Inc. 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 2 notices are dated within a single month, January 2026, 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 FormFactor.

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.

• Monrovia Adult School Career Center (opens in a new tab)

  920 South Mountain Avenue, Monrovia, CA 91016 · 626-471-3052

  Affiliate center (partial services) · about 2.6 miles from the Baldwin Park site

• America`s Job Center of California-North County Coastal Career Center

  1949 Avenida Del Oro, Oceanside, CA 92056 · 760-666-6763

  Affiliate center (partial services) · about 6.2 miles from the Carlsbad site

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 17,863 workers. These filed within about a quarter of this one.

• HRL Laboratories383 workers
• Phillips 66298 workers
• NBCUniversal287 workers
• Lakeshore Learning Materials, LLC280 workers
• Lodging Dynamics Hospitality Group, LLC278 workers
• Saks & Company LLC231 workers

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

California wage claims filed against FormFactor

California employers face claims under the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA), which lets an employee sue for civil penalties over Labor Code violations on behalf of the state. The state publishes every filing. 3 PAGA cases naming this employer are on that record, including the settlements below.

These are outcomes in other people’s cases, obtained by other lawyers, taken from the state’s public filing record. They are not results of this firm, and past results do not guarantee a similar outcome. What any individual recovers depends on their own hours, pay records, and dates.

• Proposed settlement · 2017

  $1,500,000

  The document is a proposed settlement between an employee and FormFactor, Inc. over claims involving employees at FormFactor's Livermore facility who were covered by an Alternative Workweek Schedule. The settlement resolves allegations about overtime, meal and rest breaks, wage statements, and other wage-and-hour issues without admitting liability. It covers current and former employees from August 21, 2009 through March 15, 2017, and requires court approval.

  Covered all current and former employees who worked at Defendant FormFactor’ s Livermore facility and who were ever covered by FormFactor’ s Alternative Workweek Schedule Program (‘AWS’) from August 21, 2009 through March 15, 2017. The settlement resolved class claims as well as PAGA penalties.

  Attorneys' fees

  $500,000

  To the state (LWDA)

  $25,000

  Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Alameda · FormFactor denied liability; a settlement is not an admission.

A PAGA case is not a class action, and there is nothing to opt out of. A PAGA settlement resolves civil penalties owed to the state — most of which the state keeps — and it does not necessarily resolve your own unpaid wages, missed break premiums, or final-paycheck penalties. If you worked here and were not paid correctly, that is a separate question worth asking about. How California wage claims work.