How WARN notices work
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.
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WARN notices
State and federal WARN Act notices.
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act requires employers with 100 or more employees to give 60 calendar days of written notice before a plant closing or a mass layoff. The notice goes to the affected workers or their representative, to the state dislocated worker unit and to the chief elected official of the local government, which is why the notices become public records.
States publish them on their own schedules and in their own formats, and several run their own rules that are stricter than the federal one. California, New York and New Jersey each require more notice or cover smaller employers than the federal Act does.
A WARN notice is not a prediction. It is a dated statement that a named employer expects to cut a named number of jobs at a named site, which makes it the most reliable early signal available about a local economy.
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