PacificSource, the Oregon health insurer, will lay off 134 workers on December 31, 2026. The company filed a federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, known as a WARN notice, with the state and four cities on October 20, and OPB reported it on October 22.
The jobs are in Springfield, Bend, Salem and Portland. The state’s copy of the WARN notice, numbered 9646, lists the layoffs as permanent and says the company’s reasons are its exit from the Montana market and its individual line of business, plus a right-sizing of its Oregon workforce.
For anyone among the 134, or a household that relies on one of those paychecks, the question is what to line up before the last day. The notice says affected employees are being, or have been, directly notified at least 60 days before their separation dates. It states that no affected employee has bumping rights, meaning the right to displace another worker, and that no union represents them. The state’s Rapid Response coordinator received a copy.
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Why is PacificSource cutting jobs?
OPB, citing the notice, says the company points to its end of service in Montana, the end of its Affordable Care Act offerings and a right-sizing of its Oregon workforce. The letter to the state words the first part as a decision to exit the Montana market and the individual line of business, plus rightsizing across all lines of business in Oregon.
The notice was addressed to Michael Welter, Oregon Rapid Response Coordinator at the Higher Education Coordinating Commission’s Office of Workforce Investments, and to the mayors of Bend, Salem, Springfield and Portland. Those are Melanie Kebler, Julie Hoy, Sean VanGordon and Keith Wilson.
How many layoffs has the company announced?
The 134 is the fourth round in 13 months. OPB puts the total at 550 layoffs announced over that stretch. The earlier rounds, each tied to its own state notice, were:
- September 19, 2025: 54 layoffs, with no reason given, effective at the end of 2025 (WARN 9362).
- October 2025: 265 layoffs, attributed to a reduction in Medicaid membership in Lane County, effective at the end of 2025 (WARN 9377).
- May 2026: 97 layoffs, with reasons similar to the current notice (WARN 9517).
- December 31, 2026: the 134 layoffs in the new notice.
Added together, 54, 265, 97 and 134 make 550.
Where do the affected jobs sit?
The notice lists four Oregon sites: 2965 NE Conners Ave in Bend, 1500 SW First Ave, Suite 200 in Portland, 4263 Commercial St SE, Suite 400 in Salem, and 555 International Way in Springfield, the company’s headquarters address. It gives only the total of 134 and says job titles and headcounts will be kept on site and readily accessible.
The company’s contacts for questions are Stephanie Pimmel, senior vice president and chief people officer, at (541) 225-3751, and Valdete Hugues, vice president of human resources, at (208) 780-2055.
What has the company not said?
Neither the OPB story nor the notice describes severance, continued health coverage or other support for the workers. The OPB story, which first ran on KLCC, does not include a quote or a spokesperson’s name. Whether more layoffs follow is also not stated.
The date is the fixed point. December 31, 2026 is the last day for the 134 affected jobs, and the notice’s 60-day language means each worker’s formal warning is due on or before November 1. What each worker’s package looks like is a question for the company’s human resources contacts.
Lining up household costs before a December 31 job loss?
A layoff date of December 31 leaves a household a short stretch to sort out which benefits fit a smaller paycheck. Programs with their own income limits and sign-up steps are easy to miss when a job ends, and a missed one can cost a winter’s worth of help.
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This article was produced with AI assistance and edited for accuracy against the sources linked above.
