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The Department of Labor administers the WARN Act, which requires 60 days’ notice of large layoffs and plant closings, and unemployment insurance through the states.
Payrolls grew five times the pace of the past year, June and July were revised up by 55,000 between them, and the unemployment rate held at 4.1 percent. The numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics release, and what was revised.
The federal WARN Act requires large employers to give written notice 60 days before a plant closing or mass layoff. The thresholds, the exceptions and the remedy, from the Labor Department’s own guide for workers.
Unemployment insurance is run by the state where you worked under federal rules. The steps that apply everywhere, the parts that differ, and the figures that decide your weekly amount.
Unemployment claims, health coverage, the severance paper, the retirement account and the tax withholding each have a clock. Here they are in sequence, with the document behind each.