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Philips Respironics to lay off nearly 200 workers from Westmoreland locations
Dutch health technology giant Philips Respironics has notified state officials it plans to lay off nearly 200 people at three Westmoreland County locations beginning in early 2026.
Philips issued a WARN notice to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, part of a move the company initially announced in June 2024. The acronym stands for Workforce Adjustment and Retraining Notification, which is a 60-day advance notice of a mass layoff or plant closing, required by the federal WARN Act.
Companies with 100 or more full-time employees are subject to the WARN Act’s provisions.
Philips said it plans to lay off 196 employees spread across its Murrysville, Upper Burrell and East Huntingdon locations between the end of December and June 30, 2026.
“In June 2024 we previously announced that our Western PA manufacturing operations would transfer to a strategic supplier,” company officials told TribLive. “The WARN letter issued on Oct. 30, 2025, for some employees in the Murrysville and New Kensington (Upper Burrell) sites were part of this notification from last year, and is just now being implemented based on the transition plans for the sites.”
The move comes amid several shifts within the company’s Western Pennsylvania footprint in recent years.
In April 2024, Philips agreed to pay $1.1 billion as part of a settlement involving hundreds of personal injury lawsuits over its defective sleep apnea machines, which were subject to a global recall.
In early April, the U.S. Justice Department filed a complaint for a permanent injunction against the company, specifically operations in Murrysville, Upper Burrell and East Huntingdon, along with a plant in California.
In June 2024, the company announced it would be shutting down manufacturing operations in Westmoreland County. However it also announced it would be shifting 500 employees from its former Bakery Square location in Pittsburgh to the three Westmoreland sites.
Philips employed about 2,400 people at its Western Pennsylvania facilities as of late 2023.
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