Apparently there was a division meeting in L&S recently, and I saw some people confusedly questioning a timeframe of "two months" in conversations after that relating to something discussed in the meeting. What's this all about? Any clues? What happens in two months?
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Federal Law called Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification Act (WARN).
The WARN Act requires employers to provide advanced notification to workers when faced with a mass layoff or plant closing. The idea is to provide those workers and their families time to adjust to the job loss and seek employment elsewhere through local workforce training boards, such as the Workforce Alliance of South Central Kansas.
WARN requires companies with 100 or more full-time workers give employees 60 days notice in advance of mass layoffs or closings if they: Close a facility of 50 or more workers; discontinue an operating unit of 50 or more workers; lay off between 50 and 499 workers, and these layoffs make up 33% of the workforce at a single site; or lay off 500 or more workers at a single site.