WARN requires that employers with 1OO or more full-time workers give employees 60 days 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 work force at a single employment site
• 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, to the extent possible.
 

Notice must be given to each employee to be laid off or the employee's union representative, if represented by a union or unions; the chief elected official of the unit of local government where the closing is occurring; and the state's Dislocated Worker Unit.

 

Applicable Counties

  • Statewide

What to expect

Send WARN notice or make inquiries to:

Attn: Judy Pelletier - Maine Dept. of Labor  55 State House Station  Augusta, ME 04333 or RapidResponse.DOL@maine.gov 

 

Additional information is available from the US DOL at the Employment and Training Administration WARN Site, including WARN handbooks for workers and employers in English and Spanish.