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Employment (Focus & Forum)

Jan. 10, 2009

Facilitating Fair Warning

Employers faced with making layoffs may wish to engage in careful, strategic, WARN Act planning, write Stephen Harris and Ethan Lipsig. - Employment Column

EMPLOYMENT COLUMN

By Stephen Harris and Ethan Lipsig

The Federal WARN Act generally requires that employers provide employees 60 days' advance notice of "employment losses" (certain discharges, layoffs or hour reductions) if enough employment losses are occurring. Layoffs large enough to require WARN Act notice are exempt if they are not expected to last more than six months, but sometimes they last longer, causing WARN Act notice to be required....

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