In the New Hampshire General Court, the Senate and House of Representatives have passed the New Hampshire Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. The Act has been submitted to the Governor for signature.
The Act would apply to any employer of 75 or more full-time workers in the state and requires employers to provide 60 days advance notice of a plant closing or mass layoffs. Plant closings are defined as a shutdown of operations affecting 50 or more full-time employees. Mass layoffs are defined as an employment loss at a single site of employment that affects 250 or more full-time workers or that affects at least 25 full-time employees if they constitute 33 percent of the full-time employees of the employer. The Act empowers the state commissioner of labor to determine liabilities and civil penalties for violations of the Act and permits employees to bring suit in court. The Act also permits the state department of labor to take a lien against the business revenues and property of violating employers and provides that the state attorney general may petition the court for an order of restitution to injured persons whenever the state attorney general has reason to believe that an employer is violating or is about to violate the statute.
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