The Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification Act (WARN) is a federal law which requires employers to provide advanced notification to workers when faced with a plant closing or mass layoff.

With this early notice, workers and their families are provided transition time to adjust to the prospective loss of employment, to seek and obtain other employment, and through assistance provided by the Local Workforce Investment Boards, to enter skill training or retraining that will allow those workers to successfully compete in the job market.

What does WARN require?
WARN requires that employers with 100 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
• Layoff 50 to 499 workers, and these layoffs constitute 33% of the total workforce at a single employment site
• Layoff 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)

WARN Factsheet

WARN Guide

WARN Announcements
Below is a list of WARN notices from Oklahoma and neighboring states.  Announcements are updated as they are received.

Recent WARN notices and layoffs in Oklahoma and surrounding states