FedEx to lay off 856 employees as Texas logistics facility shuts down

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Noi Mahoney

Fri, November 28, 2025 astatine 11:01 AM CST 2 min read

FedEx is laying disconnected 856 employees successful Coppell, Texas, arsenic it prepares to adjacent a logistics installation by April aft a large lawsuit shifted its concern to different provider, according to a filing with the Texas Workforce Commission connected Wednesday.

The layoffs volition hap successful phases opening successful January.

“This enactment is necessitated solely by our customer’s determination to modulation its concern to a caller determination that volition beryllium managed by a caller third-party logistics provider,” the institution wrote successful its notice. “The discontinuance of FedEx Supply Chain Logistics & Electronics, Inc.’s cognition of the Coppell installation is expected to beryllium imperishable and is expected to beryllium finalized by April 29, 2026.”

Coppell is located astir 21 miles northwest of downtown Dallas.

FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) provides customers and businesses worldwide with a wide portfolio of transportation, e-commerce and concern services.

FedEx said employees were notified successful beforehand and that immoderate workers whitethorn beryllium eligible for different roles wrong the company. The institution added it volition supply “job placement assistance, relocation assistance oregon severance, arsenic applicable.”

The Coppell cuts travel different caller FedEx occupation reductions successful North Texas, including 305 layoffs astatine a Fort Worth installation announced successful May and 131 layoffs astatine sites successful Garland and Plano announced successful June.

Logistics and manufacturing employers crossed the state person been deed with a question of occupation cuts successful caller months, pressured by the Trump administration’s commercialized policies, installation closures, EV-market slowdowns and shifting user request that proceed to strain planetary proviso chains.

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