Newark, N.J. (March 11, 2020) - On January 21,
2020, New Jersey Governor Philip Murphy signed widespread
amendments to the Millville Dallas Airmotive Plant Job Loss
Notification Act (the NJ-WARN Act) into law that go into effect
July 19, 2020. The most important and widely remarked-upon change
– described below – is that, in certain instances,
employers must pay severance of one week's pay for every full
year of employment. New Jersey is the first state to impose such a
requirement. Also significant among the amendments is the new
requirement that 90 days advance notice of a mass layoff or plant
closing be given, rather than 60 days.
Since its adoption, the NJ-WARN Act has required employers to
give notice to their employees in the event of certain mass
layoffs, terminations, and transfers of operations. Even prior to
the recent amendments, the NJ-WARN Act imposed more onerous
requirements than its federal counterpart, the Worker Adjustment
Retraining and
