The Abridged version:
- Three companies in the four-county Sacramento region issued layoff notices to 185 workers this week, according to Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) documents.
- Layoffs in the region in the current fiscal year have already surpassed the number for the entire 2024-25 fiscal year.
- Companies affected in the latest filings include a cannabis company, a public charter school and a private truck hauler of petroleum products.
Three Sacramento-area companies filed layoff notices affecting nearly 200 workers in the four-county region this week.
The job losses hit DASH Industries, a Sacramento cannabis company, Sentinel Transportation, a nationwide private tank truck hauler of petroleum products, and John Adams Academy, a public charter school operating in Roseville, Lincoln and El Dorado Hills.
In required federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) documents, DASH posted the largest job losses of the three. Eighty workers will lose their jobs as a result of the company closing. Eliminated positions include 22 cultivation technicians and 44 trimmers.
The Sentinel Transportation layoffs are part of a nationwide transition, according to the WARN letter filed with the California Employment Development Department. Across California, 126 workers, mostly drivers in Northern California, will lose their jobs permanently. That number includes 37 in the four-county Sacramento region. The job losses are effective May 31. The Delaware-based company’s filing said it was “transitioning a division of its business to another entity within our parent company.”
John Adams Academy will close the Lincoln high school campus effective June 1, accounting for 13 layoffs, mostly teachers. In addition, 49 will lose their jobs in Roseville and six in El Dorado Hills, according to the school’s filing.
Sacramento region layoffs increasing
The Sacramento region is seeing far more layoffs than it did last year. Since Jan. 1, the four-county region has seen 992 layoffs, up from 778 layoffs during the same period in 2025. The four-county region includes Sacramento, Placer, El Dorado and Yolo counties.
The Sacramento region has seen 4,505 layoffs so far under the current fiscal year, which ends June 30. Through June 30, 2025, the region had 3,905 layoff notices, according to state data.
Dan Smith is news editor at Abridged.
This story was updated at 1:37 p.m. Friday April 3, 2026 to clarify that John Adams academy is a public charter school.