The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act applies to employers with how many employees?

The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act is a federal law that requires employers to provide advance notice of significant layoffs and plant closures. The correct threshold for employers to be covered under this act is 100 or more employees. This means that any employer with 100 or more full-time employees must give at least 60 days of advance notice to affected employees, their representatives, and certain government entities when a mass layoff or closure occurs.

This requirement is aimed at providing employees and their families time to prepare for the impact of job loss, seek alternate employment, or secure resources for retraining. Therefore, an employer falling below this threshold, such as those with 50 employees or 200 employees, would not be subject to the same notification requirements under the WARN Act.