Silgan Containers California Layoffs 2026: What Employees Should Know

What the filing says

These are the details as Silgan Containers 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.

Silgan Containers 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. 1 of the 4 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.

Packaging Dive reported that Silgan Containers filed a WARN notice with California covering temporary layoffs for 180 people at its Riverbank facility, scheduled to take effect at the end of October 2025. The filing was counted among more than 1,000 packaging manufacturing layoffs announced across the industry that month.

The report identified the Riverbank action as temporary rather than permanent, but did not include an expected duration, recall date, or company explanation.

Sources: Packaging Dive (opens in a new tab)

What the numbers show

• The filings name 2 locations: Modesto and Riverbank.
• They cover 4 separate addresses rather than a single site, so co-workers at different locations may have received different dates.
• At least one notice is marked temporary rather than permanent. A temporary designation is what the employer reported; it is not a promise of recall.
• The jobs do not all end on the same day. The filings list 4 separate last days of work, running from October 13, 2025 to September 21, 2026.
• Within Stanislaus County, this accounts for 23% of all workers covered by WARN notices on file, across 12 employers.
• By headcount it sits in the top 10% of the 593 employer layoffs tracked here.
• The EDD records the employer's sector as Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services.
• The 385 workers leaving Silgan Containers re-enter a job market where Stanislaus County unemployment stood at 7% in June 2026, above the 5.2% statewide rate (Bureau of Labor Statistics, not seasonally adjusted).
• The filings came in waves: 3 notices in August 2025 covering 330 jobs, then one notice in July 2026 covering 55 jobs.

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

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; this is the closest to the site in these filings.

• Modesto American Job Center of California / EDD Workforce Services Branch (WSB) & Stanislaus County Workforce Development (opens in a new tab)

  629 12th Street, Modesto, CA 95354 · 209-576-6118 or 209-558-WORK (9675)

  Comprehensive center (full services on site) · about 2.4 miles from the Modesto 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 Stanislaus County around the same time

12 employers have WARN notices on file in Stanislaus County, covering 1,681 workers. These filed within about a quarter of this one.

• Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, Inc.113 workers
• Downtown Streets, Inc.111 workers
• Diamond Baseball Holdings7 workers

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

Other Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services layoffs in California

Employers the EDD lists in the same sector with WARN notices on file statewide.

• Fortrex91 workers
• CraftForce Services, Inc.58 workers
• Queen City Staffing49 workers
• Athwal FDS Corporation35 workers

Grouped by the industry the EDD recorded on the filings. No connection between these employers is implied.