Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company California Layoffs 2025: What Employees Should Know

What the filing says

These are the details as Hewlett Packard Enterprise Companyreported 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.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise 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 Oct 17, 2025, 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.

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 Hewlett Packard Enterprise. 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.

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.

Hoodline reported on Nov. 5, 2025 that Hewlett Packard Enterprise is cutting about 52 positions at its San Jose campus, based on notices filed with California's Employment Development Department and separate WARN filings as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle.

Those filings show HPE's local reductions concentrated in cloud development, engineering and product management, Hoodline reported, with timelines in the notices beginning as early as mid-November for some HPE roles.

Hoodline placed the San Jose notice within a broader restructuring HPE announced earlier in 2025, under which the company said it would eliminate approximately 2,500 positions worldwide, citing Business Insider. The same week's Silicon Valley filings also included Hitachi Vantara in Santa Clara and diagnostics maker Cepheid.

Sources: Hoodline (opens in a new tab)

What the numbers show

• The 52 affected positions are in San Jose.
• The notice is dated 13 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.
• The notice arrived in October 2025, the busiest month in this dataset: California employers filed 217 WARN notices statewide.
• The 52 workers leaving Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company re-enter a job market where Santa Clara County unemployment stood at 4% in June 2026, below 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 Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

Other layoffs filed in Santa Clara County around the same time

73 employers have WARN notices on file in Santa Clara County, covering 11,472 workers. These filed within about a quarter of this one.

• Amazon6,975 workers
• Meta Platforms, Inc.4,150 workers
• Walmart587 workers
• Applied Materials, Inc.363 workers
• Intuitive Surgical, Inc.331 workers
• Broadcom Inc.247 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 Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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.

• Court-approved settlement · 2018

  $25,000,000

  A large group of employees worked for HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company. The court granted final approval of a class action settlement that resolved claims about alleged Labor Code violations related to a computer system. The settlement included $25,000,000 in cash and non-monetary relief.

  Covered all non-exempt hourly employees in California.

  Attorneys' fees

  $9,588,162

  Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles · Hewlett Packard Enterprise denied liability; a settlement is not an admission.

• Proposed settlement · 2020

  $9,600,000

  Current and former non-exempt employees in California who worked for Hewlett-Packard or its related companies allege they were not provided compliant meal breaks, were automatically deducted for meal breaks they did not take, were not paid for travel time in company trucks, and received inaccurate wage statements. A proposed settlement has been reached to resolve these claims for $9,600,000.00, without any admission of liability by the defendants.

  Covered All current and former non-exempt employees in the State of California employed by HP or its subsidiaries between December 29, 2011 and October 31, 2015, by HPE between November 1, 2015 and September 30, 2017, or by HPI between November 1, 2015 through June 30, 2017, excluding those who signed releases of claims and those who signed arbitration agreements with class action waivers.. The settlement resolved class claims as well as PAGA penalties.

  Employees covered

  1,400

  Attorneys' fees

  $3,200,000

  To the state (LWDA)

  $150,000

  Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Santa Clara · Hewlett Packard Enterprise denied liability; a settlement is not an admission.

• Court-approved settlement · 2025

  $1,400,000

  Non-exempt employees of HP Inc. in California will receive payments under a settlement that resolves claims about wage and hour violations. The settlement covers a class of non-exempt employees who worked between July 1, 2017, and April 19, 2023, and a PAGA group covering a similar period. The court approved the settlement as fair and reasonable, and the defendant denies any wrongdoing. Class members received notice and none objected or requested exclusion.

  Covered All persons who are or were employed by Defendant HP Inc. in the State of California as non-exempt employees between July 1, 2017, and April 19, 2023, excluding those who signed releases of claims and those who signed arbitration agreements with class action waivers.. The settlement resolved class claims as well as PAGA penalties.

  Employees covered

  168

  Attorneys' fees

  $466,662

  To the state (LWDA)

  $150,000

  Superior Court of the State of California, County of Santa Clara · Hewlett Packard Enterprise 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.