Layoffs again hit Texas Instruments last week, multiple sources told The Dallas Express, but the scale remains unclear.
Several employees inside the Dallas-based semiconductor giant confirmed that workers were let go on Thursday, September 25. The company has not publicly disclosed the number of people affected, and repeated requests for comment from The Dallas Express went unanswered.
The latest cuts follow previous layoffs earlier this year, including reductions at a Texas Instruments plant in Lehi, Utah. Records maintained under the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, or WARN, have not yet reflected last week’s job losses. WARN data is updated weekly by the Texas Workforce Commission, and checks of Utah’s WARN records also show no new information connected to Texas Instruments.
The WARN Act requires companies with 100 or more employees to provide 60 days’ notice ahead of plant closings or mass layoffs affecting 50 or more employees at a single site, according to the U.S. Department of Labor website. Some exceptions apply in cases of sudden business circumstances, faltering companies, or natural disasters. The law is designed to give employees and their families time to prepare for the disruption.
Discussion threads on layoff-focused forums suggest the cuts could range from several hundred to several thousand workers, according to posts on Layoff.com. Posts alleged that facilities in Lehi, multiple Dallas-Fort Worth sites, and a plant in Freising, Germany, were hit, among possible others. One commenter wrote, “Obviously they’re working around WARN,” implying that Texas Instruments might have staggered the layoffs across sites to avoid triggering statutory reporting thresholds for American plants.
Reddit users also echoed chatter from apparent current and former employees about layoffs occurring last Thursday.
The fresh wave of job losses comes only a week after DX reported that Texas Instruments has simultaneously expanded its use of H-1B visa workers while scaling back U.S. staff. The company has had 937 H-1B visa beneficiaries approved since 2020, including 71 in the first half of this year, according to data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Those approvals coincided with billions of dollars in federal subsidies under the CHIPS Act. In March, the company announced up to $1.61 billion in federal funding to expand manufacturing in the United States, part of a $60 billion initiative to build or expand seven fabrication plants in Texas and Utah. Company projections previously indicated that the investments would create more than 60,000 jobs; however, Texas Instruments’ leaders have not clarified how many of these jobs would be filled by U.S. citizens.
The H1B Salary database shows no new Labor Condition Applications filed by Texas Instruments since the most recent layoffs. Still, previous filings indicate the company at least had the intent to onboard new H-1B workers starting this fall in Dallas and other locations. However, the files do not indicate whether the applications for the foreign workers were approved.
With workers alleging broad cuts, sparse official disclosure, and no WARN filings yet available, the extent of last week’s layoffs at Texas Instruments remains unsettled, and for many, unsettling.