Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN)

WARN requires that employers with 100 or more full-time workers give employees 60-day notice in advance of plant closings and mass layoffs if they:

• Close a facility of 50 or more workers; 
• Discontinue an operating unit of 50 or more workers; 
• Lay off 50 to 499 workers, and these layoffs constitute 33% of the total workforce at a single employment site; or
• Lay off 500 or more workers at a single employment site.

Although some businesses are exempt from WARN, the law encourages all employers to give workers sufficient notice.

• Each employee to be laid off or the employee’s union representative, if represented by a union
• Chief elected official of the unit of local government where the closing will occur
• The state of Kansas Dislocated Worker Unit