Air Cargo World--The case concerned the amount of advance warning that is required by law before "mass layoffs or plant closings" as laid out in the Work Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act. The statute requires 60 days' notice to workers; two former employees had alleged that the company didn't adhere to the statute. WARN is triggered only when a certain number of employees are affected by a closing in a certain window of time.
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