Alert Laid Off Employees in Reasonable Time Act. On April 23, 2009, U.S. Representative Luis Gutierrez introduced House Bill 2077. The bill would require an employer to give 60-day written notice to employees and to appropriate state and local government officials before ordering a mass layoff that results in employment loss for a single employer at more than one site of employment when the layoff affects at least 50 employees representing 33% of the full-time employees or affects 500 or more employees. Violators would be liable to each aggrieved employee for double the back pay. The bill was referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor and in early June was referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
Regional Economic Recovery Coordination Act of 2009. On February 25, 2009, Senator Sherrod Brown introduced Senate Bill 480, which would amend the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act to require employers to notify the Secretaries of Labor and Commerce of a plant closing or layoff and the number of employees affected. The bill has been referred to the Committee on the Environment and Public Works.
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