REPORTED · WARN NOTICE✓ VERIFIEDAdded Dec 23, 2025

Battelle Layoff — March 2025

SOURCEOFFICIAL FILINGColorado Department of Labor and Employment· filed January 16, 2025View the filing ↗

EMPLOYEES AFFECTED

232

SHARE OF WORKFORCE

~1.1%

EFFECTIVE DATE

Mar 17, 2025

232 OF 22,000 EMPLOYEES

What we know

Location: Pueblo, CO (Pueblo County).

A WARN notice for this layoff is recorded on January 16, 2025.

Industry: Remediation Services.

Disclosed through an official WARN filing with the CO state workforce agency.

Summary

Battelle filed a notice with Colorado authorities reporting planned workforce reductions at the Pueblo Chemical Depot site tied to decommissioning work. Battelle currently employs 239 people at the site and reported that, beginning March 17, one worker would be laid off in March and another 231 workers would be laid off by the fourth quarter of 2026, for a total of 232 planned layoffs. The reductions are part of closure activities following destruction of the chemical stockpile and the winding down of decontamination and decommissioning work, with physical fieldwork expected to complete in 2026 and administrative closeout extending beyond. The notice specified affected workers range in age from 18 to 75 and was submitted as a WARN/layoff notification to the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment on Jan. 16.

Battelle disclosed this layoff in an official WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) notice recorded by the CO state workforce agency on January 16, 2025. The notice covers 232 employees in Pueblo, CO (Pueblo County), with the layoff effective March 17, 2025.

That is roughly 1.1% of the 22,000 people Battelle employs.

LayoffTalk has tracked 14 layoff events at Battelle since March 2025, including 568 jobs documented in official WARN filings.