These RI companies have filed WARN mass layoff notices so far this year
Some 1,000 Rhode Island workers have learned this year that they would be losing their jobs in a "mass layoff," according to notices required by fe...
Some 1,000 Rhode Island workers have learned this year that they would be losing their jobs in a "mass layoff," according to notices required by federal law. Several of the notices did not result in people ultimately being out of work. The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, called "WARN" for short, requires that employers meeting certain workforce-size thresholds notify state officials before laying off significant numbers of employees. Companies with workers in Rhode Island filed seven WARN notices, covering a total of 1,035 workers, ranging from 52 at TPI Composites, the wind-turbine blade maker that announced it is closing its Warren plant, to 249, one of two WARN notices for Aramark, the vendor that provided cleaning and maintenance services for Providence's public school district.