The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (the "WARN Act") is a federal law that was passed by Congress in 1988 to protect certain workers by requiring employers to provide employees advance notification in cases of qualified plant closings and mass layoffs, including closings and layoffs in connection with mergers and acquisitions.

In 2007, the State of New Jersey passed the Millville Dallas Airmotive Plant Job Loss Notification Act (also known as the "NJ WARN Act" or the "mini-WARN Act") with its own notice requirements.

In January 2020, Governor Phil Murphy signed amendments into law which were originally scheduled to go into effect in July 2020 but were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The wait is now over and the amendments finally took effect on April 10, 2023. Some of the changes to take place are described below:

1. Employee status. The new law no longer has a definition for "full-time employee" and "part-time employee." The deletion of such distinction effectively includes part-time employees when calculating how many employees are being laid off, expanding the number of employers subject to those amended notification requirements.
2. Employee threshold reduction. Prior to the amendments, "mass layoff" was defined as "a reduction in force which is not the result of a transfer or termination of operations and which results in the termination of employment at an establishment during any 30-day period for 500 or more full-time employees or for 50 or...

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