Brown, Murray Introduce Legislation to Improve Warn Act by Providing More Notice for Workers, Holding Employers Accountable

 “The WARN Act intends to provide employees and their communities with fair notice of job loss so that they can take steps to avoid the potentially devasting effects of sudden wage loss and economic uncertainty. The Fair Warning Act recognizes that large employers today have thousands of employees working at smaller sites spread across many communities. The Act would close the loopholes that allow companies to avoid providing notice when hundreds or even thousands of persons lose employment and would provide more meaningful accountability to ensure that working people and their communities receive the fair notice that they deserve,” said John Philo, Sugar Law Center for Economic & Social Justice. … see full story at Sen Sherrod Brown’s Newsroom