The labor law, which has gone viral on social media, gives workers a heads-up about impending layoffs – and the information is open to the public.
WARN Act"I have companies calling me up asking about WARN, because they’re thinking about laying some people off," Gary Lafayette, an employment and labor attorney with Lafayette & Kumagai, told FOX Television Stations Tuesday. "It’s important for them to know what the rules are." Passed by Congress in 1988, the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act helps ensure advance notice in cases of qualified plant closings and mass layoffs, according to the U.S.
"Both the federal and state WARN notice statutes provide for penalties for employers who fail to file the 60 day notice," he told FOX, adding, "But they do not mean the mass layoff, or business relocation, or business closing cannot procede." The WARN Act has garnered a lot of attention on social media recently amid the latest wave of layoffs in the U.S.
In addition, small companies are exempt from providing WARN notices, so an employee would likely hear about an upcoming layoff internally. Lawmakers in California have proposed a measure that would force large employers to give employees 90 days notice before layoffs.
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