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- Title
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act: Effects on notice provision.
- Authors
Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.
- Abstract
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) of 1988 requires that covered firms provide affected employees with 60 days' advance notice of plant closings and large-scale layoffs. The authors use data from the three most recent Displaced Worker Surveys to compare the extent of notice under voluntary (1983-88) and mandatory (1989-91) notice regimes. They find that the legislation has had at most a small impact on the provision of notice of the length stipulated under the Act. This non- event is at least partially due to the liberal firm-size and layoff thresholds for determining coverage under WARN.
- Subjects
OCCUPATIONAL retraining; EMPLOYEES; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; DOWNSIZING of organizations; UNEMPLOYMENT; INDUSTRIAL surveys
- Publication
ILR Review, 1994, Vol 47, Issue 4, p650
- ISSN
0019-7939
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/001979399404700409