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Fact Sheet - The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act
If a company is going to shut down a plant or enact mass layoffs, they are required by federal law (the WARN Act) to provide the employees 60 days notice.
In January, there is a fiscal cliff coming if no budget is approved. Automatic cuts will hit the defense budget and this will immediately affect defense contractors.
If you back up 60 days from there, you are just days in front of the election. Friday, November 2. The election is on Tuesday, November 6.
Guess what the Obama Administration has realized?
Yeah. If millions of defense workers get a WARN Act notice they will be unemployed in January, that could, like, affect the election and stuff.
And that is why the Department of Labor has sent out a notice to defense contractors not to send out WARN Act notices to their employees.
See for yourself: http://wdr.doleta.gov/directives/attach/TEGL/TEGL_3a_12_acc.pdf
Things that make you go hmmmm...
If a company is going to shut down a plant or enact mass layoffs, they are required by federal law (the WARN Act) to provide the employees 60 days notice.
WARN offers protection to workers, their families and communities by requiring employers to provide notice 60 days in advance of covered plant closings and covered mass layoffs. This notice must be provided to either affected workers or their representatives (e.g., a labor union); to the State dislocated worker unit; and to the appropriate unit of local government.
In January, there is a fiscal cliff coming if no budget is approved. Automatic cuts will hit the defense budget and this will immediately affect defense contractors.
If you back up 60 days from there, you are just days in front of the election. Friday, November 2. The election is on Tuesday, November 6.
Guess what the Obama Administration has realized?
Yeah. If millions of defense workers get a WARN Act notice they will be unemployed in January, that could, like, affect the election and stuff.
And that is why the Department of Labor has sent out a notice to defense contractors not to send out WARN Act notices to their employees.
See for yourself: http://wdr.doleta.gov/directives/attach/TEGL/TEGL_3a_12_acc.pdf
Questions have recently been raised as to whether the WARN Act requires Federal contractors—including, in particular, contractors of the Department of Defense (DOD)—whose contracts may be terminated or reduced in the event of sequestration on January 2, 2013, to provide WARN Act notices 60 days before that date to their workers employed under government contracts funded from sequestrable accounts. The answer to this question is “no.”
Things that make you go hmmmm...
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