REPORTED · WARN NOTICE✓ VERIFIEDAdded Jun 19, 2026

First Student Layoff — August 2026

SOURCEOFFICIAL FILINGWashington State Employment Security Department· filed June 17, 2026View the filing ↗

EMPLOYEES AFFECTED

111

SHARE OF WORKFORCE

~0.2%

EFFECTIVE DATE

Aug 17, 2026

111 OF 50,000 EMPLOYEES

What we know

Location: Seattle, WA (Permanent County).

A WARN notice for this layoff is recorded on June 17, 2026.

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

Summary

First Student, the bus company serving Seattle Public Schools, filed a WARN announcing it will permanently disable 60% of operations at its Belltown and Olympic Hills facilities starting in August, triggering layoffs. The WARN details the layoff of over 111 employees, primarily school bus drivers represented by Teamsters Local 174. The cutbacks follow last year’s bus drivers’ strike and the subsequent contract between First Student and the union. KIRO 7 reached out to Seattle Public Schools for comment but had not received a response at the time of reporting.

First Student disclosed this layoff in an official WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) notice recorded by the WA state workforce agency on June 17, 2026. The notice covers 111 employees in Seattle, WA (Permanent County), with the layoff effective August 17, 2026.

That is roughly 0.2% of the 50,000 people First Student employs.

LayoffTalk has tracked 19 layoff events at First Student since August 2022, including 1,296 jobs documented in official WARN filings, with 9 additional events known from news reporting.