Rapid Response to Layoffs and Plant Closings
If you’re losing your job in a mass layoff or plant closing, the state’s Rapid Response team can come in to help workers with Unemployment Insurance, job search services, childcare assistance, health insurance and other issues. Sometimes Rapid Response professionals can find ways to avoid or minimize the layoffs.
The Rapid Response team will conduct employee orientation meetings designed to help you get back on your feet. You’ll hear about services and benefits including the following:
- Career counseling and job search assistance
- Resume preparation and interviewing skills workshops
- Local labor market facts and figures
- Unemployment insurance
- Education and training opportunities
- Health benefits and pensions
- Information about childcare assistance and other community services
The Rapid Response team reacts when it learns of impending layoffs. The information may come from the company, from media or other reports, from employees, or from WARN notices that are required 60-days before major layoffs.
If you know your company is planning layoffs and you have not been told that Rapid Response services will be available to you, or if your company laid you off without notice, please contact one of the contacts listed below.
Oklahoma is receiving $1.5 million in federal economic stimulus funds to make Rapid Response services more widely available during the recession.
More information
Rapid Response Layoffs and Plant Closures, Oklahoma Employment Security Commission
Rapid Response for Laid Off Workers, U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration
Contacts:
Lynda Baird, Lynda.Baird@oesc.state.ok.us, 405-557-5395
Vikki Dearing, Vikki_Dearing@OKcommerce.gov, 405-815-5114