How does the WARN Act come into play with this rif in the U.S.?

In summary - Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) (29 USC 2100 et. seq.) - 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.

How does that apply to the U.S.-based employees affected? Is Sabre somehow exempt from this act? Those that are affected are out the door after tomorrow, and it's been far less than 60 days since all in the company were notified this was to take place on May 15th.

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If the WARN act applies, they can give you 60 days pay on top of your normal severance in lieu of notice.

according to wikipedia, WARN act doesn't apply in these instances:

If a plant closing or a mass layoff results in fewer than 50 workers losing their jobs at a single employment site;
If 50 to 499 workers lose their jobs and that number is less than 33% of the employer's total, active workforce at a single employment site;

also, the 60-day rule doesn't apply in this circumstance:

Faltering company: When, before a plant closing, a company is actively seeking capital or business and reasonably, in good faith, believes that advance notice would preclude its ability to obtain such capital or business, and this new capital or business would allow the employer to avoid or postpone the shutdown for a reasonable period;

I think it has to be at least 30% in one location. US seems like it might be meeting that though.

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