On January 1, 2010, New Hampshire’s state WARN Act went into effect. The law requires employers to provide advance notice to employees before mass layoffs or plant closings. The law applies to more employers and protects more workers than existing federal legislation by lowering numerical thresholds for determining when notice is required. The law also contains innovative provisions that empower the state labor commissioner to determine liabilities for violations and that provide a lien upon business revenues and company property for sums owed under the Act.
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