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Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, Inc. California Layoffs 2025: What Employees Should Know

Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, Inc. has 19 layoff notices on file with California's Employment Development Department (EDD) under the state's Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, covering 113 jobs in Fresno County, Kern County, Madera County, Merced County, Monterey County, Sacramento County, San Joaquin County, San Mateo County, Santa Clara County, Santa Cruz County, Stanislaus County. That is what the state has published since July 2025, not an all-time total. If you were one of them, here is what the filing says, how much notice the law asks for, and what to look at before you sign anything.

What the filing says

These are the details as Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, Inc. reported them to the state. The EDD publishes every notice, and this page reflects the data as of Jul 31, 2026. All 19 are listed below; the table scrolls.

LocationCountyNotice givenJobs endWorkersType
San JoseSanta Clara CountyJul 9, 2025Jul 9, 202517Layoff Permanent
MercedMerced CountyJul 24, 2025Jul 24, 20252Layoff Permanent
San MateoSan Mateo CountyJul 24, 2025Jul 24, 20259Layoff Permanent
San MateoSan Mateo CountyJul 24, 2025Jul 24, 20251Layoff Permanent
San JoseSanta Clara CountyJul 24, 2025Jul 24, 20251Layoff Permanent
San JoseSanta Clara CountyJul 24, 2025Jul 24, 20251Layoff Permanent
San JoseSanta Clara CountyJul 24, 2025Jul 24, 20251Layoff Permanent
San JoseSanta Clara CountyJul 24, 2025Jul 24, 202512Layoff Permanent
BakersfieldKern CountyJul 24, 2025Sep 24, 20252Layoff Permanent
Not statedMadera CountyJul 24, 2025Sep 24, 202511Layoff Permanent
ModestoStanislaus CountyJul 24, 2025Sep 24, 20253Layoff Permanent
Not statedFresno CountyJul 24, 2025Sep 24, 20254Layoff Permanent
SalinasMonterey CountyJul 24, 2025Sep 24, 20253Layoff Permanent
WatsonvilleSanta Cruz CountyJul 24, 2025Sep 24, 20252Layoff Permanent
South San FranciscoSan Mateo CountyJul 24, 2025Sep 24, 202510Layoff Permanent
StocktonSan Joaquin CountyJul 24, 2025Sep 24, 20253Layoff Permanent
GilroySanta Clara CountyJul 24, 2025Sep 24, 202513Layoff Permanent
Santa CruzSanta Cruz CountyJul 24, 2025Sep 24, 202517Layoff Permanent
SacramentoSacramento CountyJul 24, 2025Sep 25, 20251Layoff Permanent

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.

What this filing shows

The shortest gap in these filings is 0 calendar days between the notice date and the date the jobs end. That is less than the 60 days the statute describes.

This is a fact drawn from the public filing, not a conclusion that anyone broke the law. The date an employer records is not always the date workers were told, employers of different sizes are covered differently, and exceptions can apply. Whether it means anything in your case is exactly what a free consultation sorts out.

Planned Parenthood Mar Monte 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.

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Questions people are asking

What is the Planned Parenthood Mar Monte severance package?

The WARN notice Planned Parenthood Mar Monte filed with the state does not list severance terms, and we do not publish any employer's package. A WARN notice reports how many jobs end, where, and when. Severance is a separate contract offered at the employer's discretion. California law does not require it, and an employer cannot use contractual severance to satisfy what the WARN Act requires, so being offered a package does not by itself answer whether notice pay is also owed. If you have an offer in hand, the terms in front of you are the ones that matter, and they are worth reading closely before the deadline on them runs.

Am I owed severance from Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, Inc.?

California law does not require severance on its own, and a severance offer is a separate thing from WARN pay. An employer cannot use contractual severance to satisfy its WARN obligation, so being offered a package does not answer whether notice pay is also owed.

Does taking the severance reduce what I could recover?

It depends on why the money is being paid. Severance the employer was already obligated to provide — under a contract, a policy, a benefit plan, or a union agreement — cannot be set against what the WARN Act requires. A payment that is genuinely voluntary and unconditional, one the employer had no legal obligation to make, can reduce that liability. Wages for work you actually performed during the notice period are not voluntary severance at all. Which category an offer falls into is a question about the document in front of you, not about the layoff, and it is one of the better reasons to have the paperwork read before the deadline on it runs.

Why do co-workers have different last days?

The filings here list 4 separate last days of work. Employers commonly stagger a reduction so some functions run longer than others. Your own notice period is measured against your date, not the earliest one in the filing, so two people at the same employer can be in genuinely different positions.

What if I did not get 60 days of notice?

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. That is far narrower than federal law, which has three exceptions. The shortest gap in these filings is 0 days, which is 60 short of 60. That is arithmetic on two published dates and not a finding that anyone broke the law: the recorded date is not always the date workers were told, and coverage depends on the employer's size and how many people were let go.

Can I still collect unemployment?

Yes. Under Labor Code section 1407, WARN-related payments are not treated as wages for unemployment purposes, so they cannot be used to deny or reduce your benefits in California. You do not have to wait for your last day — the filings here run through Sep 25, 2025 — and filing early is generally better than filing late.

Does taking a new job hurt my claim?

No. Wages you earn at a new job during the notice period do not reduce what a former employer may owe under WARN. You do not need to delay a job search to protect a claim.

How long do I have to act?

Generally three years. The federal WARN Act sets no limitations period of its own, so courts borrow the closest state deadline, which in California is the three-year period for a liability created by statute. The clock starts when you suffer an employment loss, not when the notice went out. Measured from the last day of work in these filings, Sep 25, 2025, three years runs to about Sep 25, 2028. If this was a layoff rather than an outright termination, the loss may not count until the layoff has lasted more than six months, which can start the clock later still. Treat all of it as an outer edge rather than a plan. Other claims arising from the same layoff run much shorter, and a severance offer usually carries its own deadline measured in days.

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.

San José Spotlight reported that Planned Parenthood Mar Monte announced on July 24, 2025 it would close five health centers — in Gilroy, South San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Cruz and Madera — and lay off about 120 staff across the affiliate, after the federal budget bill prohibited Medicaid reimbursements to large nonprofit health care organizations that provide abortion care. The affiliate estimated it could lose roughly $100 million a year, more than half its revenue, if the defunding stands.

The affiliate also eliminated family medicine, behavioral health and prenatal care services across remaining locations, and 10 administrative staff supporting clinic operations were laid off in San Jose even as its four San Jose clinics stayed open, per San José Spotlight.

Details worth knowing

  • In Bakersfield, the two affected employees were the central follow-up coordinator and the volunteer services coordinator; KGET reported the layoff date was July 24 with the positions permanently eliminated September 24, and quoted HR vice president Gregory Krause citing 'the recent loss of significant grants and the anticipated loss of federal funding.'
  • The Business Journal reported the Fresno (4 positions) and Madera (11 positions) terminations noticed in July were finalized on September 24, 2025; the Madera clinic closed entirely while Planned Parenthood continues to operate three clinics in Fresno.

Sources: San José Spotlight (opens in a new tab)KGET 17 News (opens in a new tab)The Business Journal (opens in a new tab)

What the numbers show

  • The filings name 12 California locations, including San Jose, Merced, San Mateo, Bakersfield, Modesto and Salinas.
  • They cover 18 separate addresses rather than a single site, so co-workers at different locations may have received different dates.
  • The jobs do not all end on the same day. The filings list 4 separate last days of work, running from July 9, 2025 to September 25, 2025.
  • The shortest gap between notice and last day here is 0 days, against a statewide median of 61 days across every notice on file.
  • By headcount it sits in the top 35% of the 593 employer layoffs tracked here.
  • The 113 workers leaving Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, Inc. 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).
  • All 19 notices are dated within a single month, July 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 Planned Parenthood Mar Monte.

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.

Layoff siteNearest job centerCenter addressPhoneMiles
Not statedMadera Workforce Assistance Center (opens in a new tab)2037 West Cleveland Avenue, Madera559-662-45002.7
Not statedWorkforce Connection Fresno East (opens in a new tab)1455 E. Shaw Avenue, Fresno559-230-44401.2
BakersfieldEPIC - Envision-Plan-Innovate-Connect (opens in a new tab)2211 H Street, Bakersfield661-336-64600.8
Gilroywork2future Gilroy Job Center (opens in a new tab)379 Tomkins Ct., Gilroy408-758-34771.9
MercedEDD Merced WSB / Merced County Worknet (opens in a new tab)1205 West 18th Street, Merced209-726-5407 EDD Merced WSB / 877-267-9675 Merced County Worknet1.3
ModestoModesto American Job Center of California / EDD Workforce Services Branch (WSB) & Stanislaus County Workforce Development (opens in a new tab)629 12th Street, Modesto209-576-6118 or 209-558-WORK (9675)1.8
SacramentoAsian Resources, Inc. (ARI) AJCC (opens in a new tab)2411 Alhambra Blvd, Sacramento916-324-62021.8
SalinasSalinas AJCC (opens in a new tab)344 Salinas Street, Salinas831-796-33350.7
San JoseNorth San Jose America`s Job Center of California (opens in a new tab)1901 Zanker Road, San Jose408-216-62002.7
San JoseSan Jose Job Center (opens in a new tab)1608 Las Plumas Avenue, San Jose408-794-11012.2
San MateoHuman Services Agency of San Francisco (opens in a new tab)3120 Mission Street, San Francisco415-401-480013.6
Santa CruzCapitola Career Center - America`s Job Center of California (AJCC) (opens in a new tab)2045 40th Avenue, Capitola831-464-62863.3
South San FranciscoHuman Services Agency of San Francisco (opens in a new tab)3120 Mission Street, San Francisco415-401-48006.3
StocktonSan Joaquin Delta College WorkNet Center (opens in a new tab)5151 Pacific Avenue, Stockton209-954-5151 ext 63000.5
WatsonvilleSCCOE - Suenos Youth Program Services (opens in a new tab)229 Green Valley Road, Freedom831-466-56720.6

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.

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

Key points

Each point is explained and sourced above · Verified July 31, 2026

Key points from Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, Inc. California layoffs 2025, verified as of July 31, 2026

  • Workers affected · Fresno County, Kern County, Madera County, Merced County, Monterey County, Sacramento County, San Joaquin County, San Mateo County, Santa Clara County, Santa Cruz County, Stanislaus County · published since July 2025

    113

    CA EDD WARN report

  • Notices filed · California · published July 2025 to July 2026

    19

    CA EDD WARN report

  • Jobs end · As filed

    Sep 25, 2025

    CA EDD WARN report

  • Days between notice and last day · Arithmetic on two published dates

    0 calendar days

    CA EDD WARN report

  • Santa Clara County unemployment rate · vs 5.2% statewide, not seasonally adjusted

    4% (June 2026)

    BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • Notice California law describes · California

    60 days before a covered mass layoff

    Lab. Code § 1401

  • Available exceptions · California

    Physical calamity or act of war only

    Lab. Code § 1401

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