Definition
The US Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, which generally requires employers with 100 or more employees to give 60 days' notice before a mass layoff or plant closing. It is the law that makes 'surprise, you're fired' an expensive surprise.
Example Usage
Legal says we need to send WARN notices sixty days before the plant closes, so the layoffs will be announced well before the holiday party.
Origin
Enacted as the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988.
Source: US federal law: WARN Act (1988)
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