Almost three years after signing into law legislation significantly amending New Jersey's analog to the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act ("WARN Act") —officially titled the Millville Dallas Airmotive Plant Job Loss Notification Act (the "NJ WARN Act")—Governor Phil Murphy signed Assembly Bill No. 4768 on January 10, 2023, thereby permitting the far-reaching amendments to take effect sooner than previously expected. The effective date of the sweeping revisions had been put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic; however, with his signing of the bill, Government Murphy accelerated the timeline for the amendments, which are now set to take effect on April 10, 2023.
As previously discussed here, the federal WARN Act provides protections to employees impacted by plant closings and mass layoffs, such as by requiring that companies with 100 or more employees give their workers at least 60 days' notice of such closings or layoffs. The NJ WARN Act already provided broader protections than its federal counterpart and, as of April 10, 2023, those protections will be even more robust.
Some significant changes to the NJ WARN Act include:
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