Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet California Layoffs 2025: What Employees Should Know

What the filing says

These are the details as Santa Fe Springs Swap Meetreported 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.

Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet 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 Jul 1, 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 Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet. 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.
• The length of the notice periodWhere a notice period turns out to fall short of what the law required, the question usually belongs to everyone in the same position rather than to one person.

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.

The Los Angeles Times reported that after roughly 100 federal immigration agents conducted a June 14, 2025 operation at the Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet, the venue saw a drop in patrons and lost about 66 of its 306 vendors, which forced a reduction in staffing from 111 employees to 67.

The Times reported the downturn hit a business already struggling with the aftereffects of the COVID pandemic, the growth of e-commerce, and inflation, and that operators dropped vendor rental fees to keep from losing more sellers.

LA Public Press reported in October 2025 that business at the swap meet still had not bounced back months after the raid, with vendors describing sharply reduced sales and customers staying away.

Sources: Los Angeles Times (via The Daily Gazette) (opens in a new tab) · LA Public Press (opens in a new tab)

What the numbers show

• The 109 affected positions are in Santa Fe Springs.
• 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 40% of the 599 employer layoffs tracked here.
• The 109 workers leaving Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet re-enter a job market where Los Angeles County unemployment stood at 5.3% in June 2026, above 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 Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet.

Other layoffs filed in Los Angeles County around the same time

158 employers have WARN notices on file in Los Angeles County, covering 17,863 workers. These filed within about a quarter of this one.

• Republic National Distributing Company1,756 workers
• Oracle America, Inc.1,250 workers
• University of Southern California957 workers
• Adventist Health614 workers
• Children's Hospital Los Angeles439 workers
• Blue Shield of California433 workers

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