LeeMAH Electronics California Layoffs 2026: What Employees Should Know

What the filing says

These are the details as LeeMAH Electronicsreported 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.

LeeMAH Electronics 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 Sep 8, 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. This notice 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 LeeMAH Electronics. 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.

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.

LeeMAH Electronics is closing its Brisbane headquarters at 155 South Hill Drive and cutting its entire 212-person workforce, the San Francisco Chronicle reported, with the company citing "changing business needs" in its notice to state officials.

The cuts reach every level of the company. The president, 11 group leaders, eight managers and six supervisors are on the list along with 92 assemblers, according to the Chronicle.

Founded in 1971 in San Francisco's Chinatown by Hong Mah, the company made cables, circuit boards and electromechanical components for transit, defense, audio and medical customers, and employed more than 680 people across five U.S. plants at its 2004 peak. Brisbane is its last remaining site, the Chronicle reported, following the closure of a Richardson, Texas plant that cut 84 jobs earlier in 2026.

Sources: San Francisco Chronicle (via Yahoo Finance) (opens in a new tab) · KRON4 (via AOL) (opens in a new tab)

What the numbers show

• The 212 affected positions are in Brisbane.
• The notice is filed as a closure rather than a partial reduction, meaning the site itself is shutting down.
• The shortest gap between notice and last day here is 63 days, close to the 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 EDD records the employer's sector as Manufacturing.
• The 212 workers leaving LeeMAH Electronics re-enter a job market where San Mateo County unemployment stood at 3.6% 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 LeeMAH Electronics.

Free job-search help near Brisbane

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; this is the closest to the site in this filing.

• Human Services Agency of San Francisco (opens in a new tab)

  3120 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 · 415-401-4800

  Affiliate center (partial services) · about 4.1 miles from the Brisbane 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 San Mateo County around the same time

34 employers have WARN notices on file in San Mateo County, covering 6,373 workers. These filed within about a quarter of this one.

• Vine Hospitality365 workers
• Visa320 workers
• Flagship Facilities Services, LLC198 workers
• Acumen LLC & The SPHERE69 workers
• Robinhood Markets, Inc.63 workers
• Verily Health Inc.58 workers

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

Other Manufacturing layoffs in California

Employers the EDD lists in the same sector with WARN notices on file statewide.

• Phillips 66298 workers
• Blue Diamond Growers280 workers
• Bumble Bee Foods, LLC253 workers
• Ventura Coastal210 workers
• G3 Enterprises66 workers
• Eargo, Inc.57 workers

Grouped by the industry the EDD recorded on the filings. No connection between these employers is implied.