Chapter six managing Employee Separations, Downsizing and Outplacement Chapter Objectives

Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988 (WARN)

• Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (1988)
• Requires employers of 100 or more employees to give 60 days’ notice before closing a facility or starting a layoff of 50 people or more.
• The law does not prevent the employer from closing down, nor does it require saving jobs.
• The law is intended to give employees time to seek other work or retraining by giving them advance notice of the shutdown.

Implementing a Layoff

• Implementing a Layoff
• Develop layoff criteria
• Seniority vs. Performance
• Communicating to laid-off employees
• Coordinating media relations
• Maintaining security
• Reassuring survivors of the layoffs
• Survivor Anxiety
• More work
• Unsettling changes
• Self assessment of contributions
• Guilt

Outplacement

• The Goals of Outplacement -
• Reducing the morale problems of employees who are about to be laid off
• Minimizing the amount of litigation initiated by separated employees
• Assisting separated employees in finding comparable jobs as quickly as possible

Outplacement Services

• Emotional Support
• Job-search Assistance