Lumileds LLC California Layoffs 2026: What Employees Should Know

What the filing says

These are the details as Lumileds LLC 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.

Lumileds 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. 2 of the 3 notices here fall after that date; the earlier ones were not subject to the new content rules. 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.

Inside Lighting reported in November 2025 that LED maker Lumileds notified 61 San Jose employees their roles were being eliminated in phases — 36 on January 30, 2026, 21 on February 6 and four by March 31 — because the production work is being transferred to another location in Asia. Affected roles included process operators, engineering technicians, manufacturing and operations managers, supply chain leaders and a senior director of science.

In March 2026 Inside Lighting reported a second phase: Lumileds intends to close the facility at 370 West Trimble Road outright, affecting 24 more employees — engineering technicians, manufacturing engineers, maintenance technicians, process operators and a senior-level scientist — with most separations on May 1, 2026. The company described it as "the second phase of restructuring of the same manufacturing-only activities" and said its U.S. go-to-market operations remain unchanged.

The restructuring unfolded amid Lumileds' pending acquisition by China's San'an Optoelectronics and Malaysia's Inari Amertron, a $239 million deal announced in August 2025, per Inside Lighting.

Sources: Inside Lighting (opens in a new tab) · Inside Lighting (opens in a new tab)

What the numbers show

• The 95 affected positions are in San Jose.
• They cover 3 separate addresses rather than a single site, so co-workers at different locations may have received different dates.
• Some of the notices are filed as closures and some as layoffs, so whether a whole site is shutting down depends on the location.
• The jobs do not all end on the same day. The filings list 3 separate last days of work, running from January 30, 2026 to August 31, 2026.
• By headcount it sits in the top 45% of the 593 employer layoffs tracked here.
• The 95 workers leaving Lumileds LLC 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).
• The filings came in waves: one notice in November 2025 covering 60 jobs, then one notice in February 2026 covering 24 jobs, then one notice in June 2026 covering 11 jobs.

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

Free job-search help near San Jose

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 these filings.

• North San Jose America`s Job Center of California (opens in a new tab)

  1901 Zanker Road, San Jose, CA 95112 · 408-216-6200

  Affiliate center (partial services) · about 1.4 miles from the San Jose 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 Santa Clara County around the same time

72 employers have WARN notices on file in Santa Clara County, covering 11,407 workers. These filed within about a quarter of this one.

• Amazon6,938 workers
• Meta Platforms, Inc.4,150 workers
• Applied Materials, Inc.363 workers
• Broadcom Inc.247 workers
• Synopsys, Inc.230 workers
• BILL Operations, LLC213 workers

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