Along with providing services, they, along with individuals and employers, have the ability to report layoffs in Illinois. A WARN layoff is a plant closure or mass layoff. Under state law, employers must notify the state when they plan to lay off workers. This law is known as the WARN Act (Illinois ...

The Illinois WARN Act requires employers with 75 or more full-time employees to give workers and state and local government officials 60 days advance notice of a plant closing or mass layoff. An employer that fails to provide notice as required by law is liable to each affected employee for ...

Illinois Compiled Statutes Table of Contents

DISCLAIMER: The information reflects only the layoff activity reported by employers to the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity under the Illinois Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, 820 ILCS 65/1 et seq. ("WARN Act"). It does not capture all layoff activity ...

The Federal WARN Act requires that employers of a certain size must notify employees and others at least 60 days in advance of a plan shutdown, mass layoffs (which include situations where the number of employee working hours are reduced) and certain situations where employees are relocated.

A Q&A guide to state versions of the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act for private employers in Illinois. This Q&A addresses notice requirements in cases of plant closings and mass layoffs. Federal, local, or municipal law may impose additional or different ...

February 10, 2025 - In Illinois, the WARN Act applies to employers who have 75 or more full-time workers and to give 60 days notice, which is different from the federal WARN Act. This difference is really important for HR managers to be aware of because it affects ...

June 4, 2025 - The main differences are in which employers and reduction events are covered by the WARN Act and the punitive consequences for not following WARN regulations. Illinois state laws have a more conservative view of which employers must comply with the WARN Act.

March 22, 2023 - That law is known as the Illinois Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, also called the WARN Act.

This chapter examines the effect of federal discrimination laws on permanent layoffs caused by plant closings and reductions in force (RIFs) and discusses the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN Act), Pub.L. No. 100-379, 102 Stat. 890 (1988), and the Illinois Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (Illinois WARN Act), 820 ILCS 65/1, et seq.

Employers Required to Provide WARN Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

A: A WARN (Worker Adjustment and ... which mandates that employers with 100 or more employees provide at least 60 days advance written notice of a plant closing or mass layoff affecting 50 or more employees....

"Representative" means an exclusive ... Labor Act (45 USC 152). [820 ILCS 65/5(g)] "WARN" means the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (29 USC 2101), or as hereafter amended....

July 20, 2025 - The Illinois Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act requires employers to provide at least 60 days' notice before mass layoffs or plant closures.

and Retraining Notification Act (“Illinois Act”), which became effective on January 1, 2005. As with · the Federal WARN Act (“Federal Act”), the Illinois WARN Act requires employers to give 60 days

June 6, 2025 - Generally speaking, the WARN Act requires larger employers (100 or more employees) to notify their workers – in writing – 60 days before implementing a mass lay-off, plant closing, or facility shut-down. Illinois also has its own WARN Act (that only requires that there be 75 or more employees).

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