Does your company need to send WARN notice if you are facing layoffs?
Unfortunately, the employment market in Southeast Louisiana continues to suffer. NOLA.Com is reporting that Trinity Marine has sent a WARN notice to the Louisiana Workforce Commission advising that it will be laying off over 300 people this holiday season. See the article at: http://bit.ly/1Rsy2qa. If your company
What is a WARN Notice?
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) protects workers, their families, and communities by requiring most employers with 100 or more employees to provide notification 60 calendar days in advance of plant closings and mass layoffs.
Employee entitled to notice under WARN include managers and supervisors, as well as hourly and salaried workers. WARN requires that notice also be given to employees’ representatives, the local chief elected official, and the state dislocated worker unit.
The purpose of the notice is to provide workers and their families some transition time to adjust to the prospective loss of employment, to seek and obtain other jobs, and to enter skill training or retraining that will allow these workers to compete successfully in the job market.
- Generally, WARN covers employers with 100 or more employees, not counting those who have worked less than six months in the last 12 months and those who work an average of less than 20 hours a week.
- Employees entitled to advance notice under WARN include managers and supervisors as well as hourly and salaried workers.
- Regular federal, state, and local government entities that provide public services are not covered by WARN.
