REPORTED · WARN NOTICE✓ VERIFIEDAdded Dec 23, 2025

Packaging Corporation of America Layoff — February 2026

SOURCEOFFICIAL FILINGWashington State Employment Security Department· filed December 11, 2025View the filing ↗

EMPLOYEES AFFECTED

200

SHARE OF WORKFORCE

~1.3%

EFFECTIVE DATE

Feb 9, 2026

200 OF 14,900 EMPLOYEES

What we know

Location: Wallula, WA (Permanent County).

A WARN notice for this layoff is recorded on December 11, 2025.

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

Summary

Strauss Borrelli PLLC is investigating Packaging Corporation of America after the company notified the Washington Employment Security Department of a mass layoff at its Wallula, Washington facility. The firm alleges Packaging Corporation of America may have violated the federal WARN Act by failing to provide 60 days' notice before laying off 200 employees at that site. The notice to state authorities was provided on December 11, 2025, and the investigation seeks to determine whether employees are entitled to 60 days of severance pay and benefits under WARN. Packaging Corporation of America, headquartered in Lake Forest, Illinois, operates paper mills and box plants that produce containerboard and corrugated packaging.

Packaging Corporation of America disclosed this layoff in an official WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) notice recorded by the WA state workforce agency on December 11, 2025. The notice covers 200 employees in Wallula, WA (Permanent County), with the layoff effective February 9, 2026.

That is roughly 1.3% of the 14,900 people Packaging Corporation of America employs.

LayoffTalk has tracked 16 layoff events at Packaging Corporation of America since October 2025, including 472 jobs documented in official WARN filings, with 12 additional events known from news reporting.