Ohio Mini-WARN Act To Take Effect On September 29, 2025

The federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, known as the WARN Act, requires employers with more than 100 employees to provide 60-days' advance notice of plant closures affecting 50 or more employees at a single site of employment and "mass layoffs" as defined in the Act. The WARN Act, passed in 1988, was intended to protect workers and their families by allowing impacted employees time to prepare for the transition of employment. Since WARN's passage, many states have adopted "little" or "mini" WARN acts establishing state-specific requirements when a qualifying plant closure or layoff is set to occur. Many of these state statutes have triggering numbers as to covered closings or layoffs less than those of the federal WARN statute to provide additional notice or otherwise expand employer requirements.