The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act requires companies to provide workers with sufficient time to prepare for the transition between the jobs they currently hold and new jobs.
The Illinois WARN Act requires employers to give 60 days notice to employees and their unions, the Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity’s Office of Employment and Training and the Illinois Department of Labor, of a plant closing or mass layoff.
Federal WARN (PDF 
) - Applies to employers with 100 or more full-time workers. Definition of “Mass Layoff” triggering notice requirements:
- 50 or more full-time employees are laid off if they constitute one-third or more of the full-time employees at the site, or
- 500 or more full-time employees
Illinois WARN (PDF ) - Applies to employer with 75 or more full-time workers. Definition of “Mass Layoff” triggering notice requirements:
- 25 or more full-time employees are laid off if they constitute one-third or more of the full-time employees at the site, or
- 250 or more full-time employees
As an employer, understanding your obligations under WARN is important.Your filing of an official WARN notice is typically the impetus for starting the Rapid Response process to assist the employees who might be affected.
Use the WARN Notice Checklist in the Documents Tab to create your notice to employees, the dislocated worker unit, union representative, and the local chief elected official.
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Visit the
Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity website for more information.
Rapid Response is a federal service strategy, carried out by the States and local workforce development agencies, which coordinate services with an employer and employee representative(s) to maximize efforts and avert a planned layoff and/ or minimize disruption for individuals and communities in dislocation events.
Rapid Response Services Available to Employers 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 designed to help participants find new jobs.
These services include: - Labor market information (occupational information and economic trends)
- Job search and placement assistance
- On-the-job training
- Classroom training
- Online Training – Steps to Success
- Entrepreneurial training
- Referral to basic and remedial education
- Support Programs and Facilitie
- Career Transition Services
- Local Out Service Groups
Illinois' Regional Workforce Management staff are assigned to a specific Economic Development Region. These regions are based on economic and labor market factors that make them logical areas for economic development and workforce planning. Illinois has five Economic Development Regions.
Within each region are Local Workforce Investment Areas. LWIA's are geographic service-delivery areas. Use the Find a Location Near You buttom to identify your local workforce center.
For every notification of dislocation, the Regional Workforce Management Division will work with staff of the LWIA, local IDES staff, staff from the AFL-CIO/ Member Assistance Program, representatives from the company dislocating employees and union officials, if applicable.
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