Showing posts with label WARN Act. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WARN Act. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

WARN Act: What is it?

Article Title: The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act

Snippet of Article: "...WARN offers protection to workers, their families and communities by requiring employers to provide notice 60 days in advance of covered plant closings and covered mass layoffs. This notice must be provided to either affected workers or their representatives (e.g., a labor union); to the State dislocated worker unit; and to the appropriate unit of local government...."

Source: www.doleta.gov WARN Act

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Sequestration, the WARN Act and Federal employees (Iowa)

Article Title: WARN Act: Sequestration gives layoff law a day in the sun

Snippet of Article: "...Job loss estimates due to sequestration include 48,059 jobs in health care, 98,953 in construction, 473,250 in manufacturing and 617,449 federal positions...."

Source: thegazette.com WARN Act