Planned Parenthood/Orange and San Bernardino Counties California Layoffs 2025: What Employees Should Know

What the filing says

These are the details as Planned Parenthood/Orange and San Bernardino Counties reported them to the state. The EDD publishes every notice, and this page reflects the data as of Jul 31, 2026. All 10 are listed below; the table scrolls.

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.

Planned Parenthood/Orange and San Bernardino Counties 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.

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.

Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties announced on October 13, 2025 that it is laying off 81 people as it shutters Melody Health, its primary care practice, after federal Medicaid reimbursements were cut off under the budget law signed in July 2025, the Orange County Register reported. Melody Health was co-located at seven Planned Parenthood health centers in Anaheim, Costa Mesa, Mission Viejo, Santa Ana, Westminster, San Bernardino and Upland, and served more than 13,000 enrolled patients.

The layoffs include physicians, nurses and administrative staff, leaving about 450 healthcare professionals and administrative staff at the organization, according to the Register. Four of the 81 cut positions resulted separately from pullbacks in federal funding for the California Personal Responsibility Education Program and federal grants that supported the organization's sex-education programs.

Sources: The Orange County Register (via Planned Parenthood of Orange & San Bernardino Counties) (opens in a new tab) · The HD Post (via NewsBreak) (opens in a new tab)

What the numbers show

• The filings name 8 California locations, including Santa Ana, Westminister, Costa Mesa, Mission Viejo, Anaheim and San Bernardino.
• They cover 10 separate addresses rather than a single site, so co-workers at different locations may have received different dates.
• By headcount it sits in the top 50% of the 593 employer layoffs tracked here.
• The latest notice arrived in October 2025, the busiest month in this dataset: California employers filed 217 WARN notices statewide.
• The 81 workers leaving Planned Parenthood/Orange and San Bernardino Counties re-enter a job market where Orange County unemployment stood at 4.1% in June 2026, below the 5.2% statewide rate (Bureau of Labor Statistics, not seasonally adjusted).
• All 10 notices are dated within a single month, October 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/Orange and San Bernardino Counties.

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.

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 Orange County around the same time

63 employers have WARN notices on file in Orange County, covering 7,118 workers. These filed within about a quarter of this one.

• Amazon6,938 workers
• Manna Beverages MBV-CA LLC638 workers
• FreshRealm281 workers
• Vons Companies Inc.244 workers
• National Distribution Centers, LLC202 workers
• Verizon193 workers

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