New Jersey’s WARN archive does not print the day a notice was filed. Its columns are company, city, month posted, effective date and workforce affected, and the September rows include three large ones: Bristol Myers Squibb in Princeton at 265, Prudential Insurance in Newark at 125 and Novo Nordisk in Plainsboro at 108. Bristol Myers Squibb’s separations start on December 17, 2026, and run in phases to May 21, 2027.
Each of those rows is a notice covering a group of workers, not a count of people who have lost jobs, and the three are laid out on very different calendars.
Three rows, three calendars
The state Department of Labor and Workforce Development’s 2026 WARN notice archive lists the Bristol Myers Squibb Princeton entry as posted in September, with an effective date range of 12/17/26 to 5/21/27 and 265 workers affected. That range spans 155 days, so no single date accounts for all 265. The Prudential Insurance Company of America row, for Newark, is posted in September with effective dates of 11/28/26 to 12/31/26 and 125 workers, a window of 33 days that opens two days after Thanksgiving. Novo Nordisk’s Plainsboro row has one date, 12/31/26, and 108 workers.
Put together, the September rows front-load the end of the year. Prudential and Novo Nordisk finish on December 31, and Bristol Myers Squibb is the only one of the three whose separations run into 2027.
Two companies, three notices each
The same archive shows the Princeton filing is not the first from Bristol Myers Squibb this year. A February entry for Lawrence Township lists seven separation dates, 5/21/26, 6/19/26, 7/16/26, 7/31/26, 10/23/26, 12/17/26 and 12/31/26, with 247 workers. An April entry for Lawrence Township covers 206 workers with separations from 7/16/26 to 12/31/26. The September Princeton entry is the third. Prudential has three as well: 53 workers in May with a 7/17/26 date, 89 in July with 9/18/26, and the 125 in September.
The archive does not say whether workers in one entry also appear in another, so adding the rows together would be a guess about overlap, and no total is offered here. What the table does show is a staggered pattern at both companies, with the September notice the largest of the three at each.
What “workforce affected” counts, and what is missing
The archive’s fifth column is headed “Workforce Affected,” and that wording matters. A WARN notice counts the workers an employer expects its plan to touch. It is not a confirmation of dismissals, and employees can move to other roles, find other work or be recalled. The table carries no job titles, no reason for the action, no distinction between a layoff and a closure and no severance dollars, so none of those can be stated for the three September entries.
It is also a New Jersey list. The 265, 125 and 108 are New Jersey sites only, and nothing in the archive speaks to those companies’ totals elsewhere.
How the notice period lines up against the dates
Federal rules require notice at least 60 calendar days before a plant closing or mass layoff. The federal regulation, 20 CFR Part 639, also says written notice goes to employee representatives or the workers themselves, the state dislocated worker unit and the chief elected official of the local government. A notice posted any time in September would, at the latest, be 78 days ahead of a December 17 date, counting from September 30. Because the archive gives only the month posted, the exact lead time for each notice cannot be worked out from it.
New Jersey adds its own layer. The department’s notification form under the Millville Dallas Airmotive Plant Job Loss Notification Act describes a 90-day notification and mandatory severance “equal to one week of pay for each full year of employment.” It adds that if an employer gives an employee less than 90 days of notice before the first termination, it “shall provide that employee with an additional four weeks of severance pay.” The form names the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development, the chief elected official of the municipality, each affected employee and any collective bargaining units as recipients of notice. Whether these particular employers owe severance under that act is not shown by the archive; the form describes the rule, not the outcome of any one filing.
The other entries on the same list
September postings in the archive also name UBS in Weehawken, Merck & Co, Educational Testing Service, Fiserv Solutions, Banker Steel, Barrette Outdoor Living, the Sheraton Atlantic City, Johnson & Johnson Services, EWC Controls and Culinaire. October postings include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation at 75 workers, Acme Markets in Hillsdale at 122 and Dr. Praeger’s Sensible Foods in Elmwood Park at 168.
The record the state published: Princeton, 265 workers, effective 12/17/26 through 5/21/27; Newark, 125 workers, 11/28/26 through 12/31/26; Plainsboro, 108 workers, 12/31/26; all posted in September 2026 per the department’s archive.
Paper for the gap between a last paycheck and the next one
The Bank Account & Debt Protection Kit is a paid, 10-page guide for households handling a collection letter, a disputed debt or a creditor’s hold on a bank account. It does not file anything or speak to a collector on anyone’s behalf; it explains the rules and gives a place to record each contact.
The kit contains the debt-validation steps and a protected-funds and dispute log, along with the frozen-account response and the 2-month bank protection rule.
Download the protected-funds and dispute log from the Bank Account & Debt Protection Kit →
This piece was drafted with AI assistance; the figures were checked against the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development archive and form and the federal regulation linked above.
