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Valuing Payments in Lieu of WARN Notice

Employers often fail to take into account all elements of compensation and benefits when valuing payments in lieu of notice. This article addresses certain elements of such payments that are often overlooked.

25 minute read July 29, 2010 at 08:20 AM
By
John D. Shyer and Austin Ozawa
Valuing Payments in Lieu of WARN Notice

The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (the WARN Act) generally requires an employer with 100 or more full-time workers to provide 60 days' notice to employees who will be affected by a mass layoff or plant closing at a single site of employment.

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