EL PASO, Tx., October 23, 2025: The latest figures from the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) show that El Paso’s job losses this year continue to grow. The latest casualty is Flagstone Foods who will be laying off 225 El Paso workers on December 19 according to their WARN notification to the TWC. The Warn Act Notices (WARN) are required to be filed 60 days ahead of any planned layoffs by companies with 50 or more employees.
Flagstone Foods is a private label snack food producer based in Minneapolis. The company is transitioning away from producing private label snacks towards Emerald-branded snacks. It is moving its El Paso production to other facilities to better align with their shift towards the Emerald Brand.
El Paso’s job market is heavily reliant on government workers. The federal shutdown has left around 13,000 El Pasoans without paycheck for almost a month now. This figure does not include military personnel deployed in El Paso. Of the top 20 El Paso employers, only seven are non-governmental employers.
This year, 808 El Pasoans have been laid off by nine large El Paso employers, including 17 people laid off by Lockheed Martin at Ft. Bliss.
In the last five years of WARN notices, only last year, with 896 job losses reported, tops this year’s reported job losses of 808. In 2023 there were 193 job losses reported and in 2022, only 154 lost jobs were reported.
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in significant job losses across the nation. Job losses peaked on April 1, 2020 and began to recover the following month. It continued to drop through the end of 2020, but job losses began to increase again in 2021.
El Paso experienced its largest job losses from large employers in 2020, when 1,231 layoffs were reported to TWC.
With two months left in the year and with the continued economic pressures of the federal government shutdown, it is likely that 2025 will suffer the largest lost jobs over the last five years. With no end in sight for Congress to reopen the federal government, El Paso’s job losses may come close to matching the job losses from COVID-19 in 2020.
The reported job losses do not include the school layoffs like Socorro ISD dismissing 300 school employees earlier this year. The ongoing trade tariffs controversies and the reduction of federal expenditures by the Trump Administration continue to build pressure on the El Paso economy.
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