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Related Pages:

• Plant & Facility Closure & Related Layoffs

Internet Sites:

• A GUIDE TO ADVANCE NOTICE OF CLOSINGS AND LAYOFFS [THE WORKER ADJUSTMENT AND RETRAINING NOTIFICATION ACT (WARN)] The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) was enacted on August 4, 1988 and became effective on February 4, 1989.
• WARN Act Update by Richard D. Armstrong, Jr. and Jonathan P. Cooke

  The federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act ("WARN"), enacted in 1990, continues to undergo developments as the federal courts interpret the meaning and operation of this important piece of legislation.

• THE W.A.R.N. ACT CONSEQUENCES OF MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
• The WARN Act

  is a federal law requiring employers of 100 or more full-time workers to give 60-days advance notice of closing or major layoffs. This federal law applies to employers in the State of Connecticut.

• State Plant Closing Notice and Dislocated Worker Law [State of Hawai'i Department of Labor and Industrial Relations: Workforce Development Division]

  requires employers to give 45 days advance written notice before a business closes down (fully or partially), or relocates. . requires such employers to give 60 days advance written notice before a business closes down or lays off 50 or more workers.

• SUPREME COURT REJECTS UNIFORM STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR WARN ACT By relaxing the deadlines in lawsuits brought under WARN, the Supreme Court kept alive two lawsuits filed by employees in Pennsylvania and Georgia.... Failure to provide such notification makes employers vulnerable to a lawsuit in a distant state, where the statute of limitations may be as long as six years.