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 WARN Act had the threshold at 50 workers) more than 90 days (up from 60 days under the WARN Act) before the layoffs are to occur. The Act also increases penalties to double back pay.