Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN)

Act Intending to Increase Warning of Layoffs Introduced.

On June 25, 2009, legislation was introduced in the Senate and the House to amend the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN). The Act entitled the FOREWARN Act would now require employers of 75 employees (rather than 100 under the WARN Act) to warn employees of potential layoffs of 25 or more workers (the […]

When Does an Employer Have to Give a 60-Day Notice Before Laying-Off Employees?

D. Scott Crook - January 23, 2009 - Lay Off, Tenth Circuit, Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN)

The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) requires certain employers to give 60 days advance notice of a mass lay off to its employees. WARN, however, does not require the notice in certain circumstances. The court having appellate jurisdiction over Utah, the Tenth Circuit, decided earlier this week in Gross v. Hale-Halsell Company, that […]