New Hampshire has lowered the threshold on WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act) requirements, now mandating that firms with 75 or more workers provide 60 days' advance warning of mass layoffs or plant closings. This lowers the bar from the 100-employee threshold in federal WARN. The state's WARN Act was signed this past summer and took effect at the beginning of 2010....

New Hampshire has enacted its own version of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, giving some fangs to a federal law that lacks real enforcement power. The federal WARN Act merely allows workers to sue in court while the New Hampshire version authorizes the state Department of Labor to directly intervene if a company fails to provide 60 days' advance notice of mass...