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The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988 (the "WARN Act") is a U.S. labor law that protects employees, their families, and communities by requiring most employers with 100 or more employees to provide notification 60 calendar days in advance of planned closings and mass layoffs of employees. [ 1]
By almost any measure, the U.S. job market is humming along in high gear and has been for quite a while. The unemployment rate has hovered below 4% for nearly two years, according to U.S. Labor ...
A carpenters union says notice of the layoffs and closures violates state law requiring 60 days' notice. Wood products company abruptly closes 3 Wisconsin plants, lays off 138, draws union ...
Last year was catastrophic for employees in some industries. Companies planned 721,677 job cuts, a 98% leap from 2022, according to a report from professional outplacement firm Challenger, Gray &...
Layoff. A layoff[ 1] or downsizing is the temporary suspension or permanent termination of employment of an employee or, more commonly, a group of employees (collective layoff) [ 2] for business reasons, such as personnel management or downsizing (reducing the size of) an organization. Originally, layoff referred exclusively to a temporary ...
This happened a day before the WARN Act went into effect requiring companies to give employees 60 days' notice before a mass layoff.
So far this year, 6 companies have filed WARN notices for mass layoffs of RI-based workers, ... the company filed a notice that it was going to close shop and layoff its 75 workers. But the two ...
After Twitter layoffs, state lawmakers introduced a bill requiring employers to give workers more notice of mass layoffs and would extend protections to contract workers.