About Oregon WARN System

The WARN Act requires employers to provide written notice at least 60 calendar days in advance of covered plant closings and mass layoffs .

An employer’s notice assures that assistance can be provided to affected workers, their families, and the appropriate communities through the State Rapid Response Dislocated Worker Unit. The advance notice allows workers and their families transition time to seek alternative jobs or enter skills training programs.

Upon receipt of a WARN notice, the State Rapid Response Dislocated Worker Unit coordinates with the employer to provide on-site information to the workers and employers about employment and retraining services that are designed to help participants find new jobs.

These services may include:

• Labor market information (occupational information and economic trends)
• Job search and placement assistance
• On-the-job training
• Classroom training
• Entrepreneurial training
• Referral to basic and remedial education

EMPLOYERS REQUIRED TO PROVIDE WARN NOTIFICATION

A WARN notice is required when a business with 100 or more full-time workers (not counting workers who have less than six months on the job and workers who work fewer than 20 hours per week) is laying off at least 50 people at a single site of employment or employs 100 or more workers who work at least a combined 4,000 hours per week, and is a private for-profit business, private non-profit organization, or quasi-public entity separately organized from regular government.

For more information on WARN, go to 20 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 639