Posts Tagged ‘ WARN Act ’

At Risk of a Layoff? Make sure you’re WARNed

August 17th, 2009. By AbiK

When facing an employment layoff, typically there’s a lot of closed door meetings, hush-hush hallway conversations, and if you’ve been involved with a major corporate “restructuring”, there can even be code names. Lots and lots of secrecy. But when it comes time to actually announce mass layoffs, there’s a little thing called the The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act—aka, WARN. The WARN Act is in place to protect workers from covered plant closings and covered mass layoffs (so it does not apply to a sole individual losing his job).

Pleading Ignorance takes a look at the WARN Act this week—it continues to me a timely topic given the economy. So let’s learn some more…

What is the WARN Act for plant closings and mass layoffs?

According to the US Dept. of Labor Employment and Training Administration, the WARN Act:

…offers protection to workers, their families and communities by requiring employers to provide notice 60 days in advance of covered plant closings and covered mass layoffs. This notice must be provided to either affected workers or their representatives (e.g., a labor union); to the State dislocated worker unit; and to the appropriate unit of local government. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Employment, Pleading Ignorance, WARN Act
Posted in Employment, Pleading Ignorance | No Comments »