Primal Pet Foods, Inc. California Layoffs 2025: What Employees Should Know

What the filing says

These are the details as Primal Pet Foods, Inc.reported 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.

Primal Pet Foods 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 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 Primal Pet Foods. 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 the numbers show

• The 147 affected positions are in Fairfield.
• They cover 3 separate addresses rather than a single site, so co-workers at different locations may have received different dates.
• Every notice is filed as a closure rather than a partial reduction, meaning the sites themselves are shutting down.
• The shortest gap between notice and last day here is 62 days, close to the statewide median of 61 days across every notice on file.
• Within Solano County, this accounts for 12% of all workers covered by WARN notices on file, across 16 employers.
• By headcount it sits in the top 25% of the 599 employer layoffs tracked here.
• The 147 workers leaving Primal Pet Foods, Inc. re-enter a job market where Solano County unemployment stood at 5% in June 2026, below the 5.2% statewide rate (Bureau of Labor Statistics, not seasonally adjusted).
• All 3 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 Primal Pet Foods.

Free job-search help near Fairfield

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.

• America`s Job Center of California - Fairfield (opens in a new tab)

  500 Chadbourne Road, Fairfield, CA 94534 · 707-863-3500

  Affiliate center (partial services) · about 0.2 miles from the Fairfield 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 Solano County around the same time

16 employers have WARN notices on file in Solano County, covering 1,185 workers. These filed within about a quarter of this one.

• Adventist Health614 workers
• Jabil, Inc.435 workers
• Kaiser Foundation Hospitals345 workers
• Downtown Streets, Inc.111 workers
• Primo Brands, Inc.84 workers
• Valyria, LLC25 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 Primal Pet Foods

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. 2 PAGA cases naming this employer are on that record.

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.