New York State Employers Required to Comply with State Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act Effective February 1, 2009

On August 5, Governor David Paterson signed the New York State Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (New York WARN), which becomes effective February 1, 2009. New York WARN is patterned in many ways after the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN), 29 U.S.C. §§ 2101-2109. New York WARN, however, establishes more stringent notice requirements for employers in New York in several key respects, and there are other potential differences between New York WARN and WARN.

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