Update—Mandatory Notice Form Issued For New Jersey’s Mini-WARN Statute

The New Jersey Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development has issued a Notification Form that employers are to use when giving advance notice of a mass layoff or shutdown of operations under the recently enacted New Jersey mini-WARN statute (officially known as the Millville Dallas Airmotive Plant Job Loss Notification Act). As addressed in our January 2008 Client Alert concerning the new law, New Jersey's mini-WARN statute became effective December 20, 2007 and mandates 60 days' advance notice to employees who are terminated in a mass layoff, or in a transfer or termination of operations, if certain numerical thresholds are reached. Employers who fail to provide the requisite notice will owe employees one week of severance pay for each year of service. The law directed the Commissioner to issue a notice form that employers would thereafter be required to use and it is now available online at http://lwd