7.5 Large Employer Layoffs

Under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, employers with 100 or more employees should (absent “unforeseeable business circumstances”) provide 60-day written advance notice of mass layoffs or plant closings to employees, the chief local elected official, and the appropriate state agency.1  Noncompliant employers may be sued for back pay for each day of the violation.

• 129 U.S.C. § 2101, et seq.