Business closings and the layoffs that follow can tremendously impact the communities in which they occur. This is especially true in small cities where there tend to be fewer career jobs available.
This is why the United States Congress created the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act in 1988.
The WARN Act is designed to protect employees, their families, and communities by requiring most employers with 100 or more employees to provide notification 60 calendar days before planned closings and mass layoffs of employees…