WARN Act Notifications

Description:
The WARN Act Notifications attribute contains records for each notice a company files in accordance with the WARN Act.

The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act of 1988 is a federal law that requires companies that employ more than 100 employees to give 60-day advance notice if they intend to lay off more than 50 employees at a single site. Thus, this is a leading indicator of business health and headcount.

Child attributes (and data file structure):

Column Name	Data Type	Description	Example
`layoff_or_closing`	string	Whether WARN Act Notification was filed due to layoffs, or the company closing down.	layoff
`notice_received_date`	string	Date on which the WARN Act Notification was filed by the company.	2020-03-20
`employees_impacted`	integer	Number of employees being laid off by the company.	52
`total_employees`	integer	Total number of employees at the company (pre-layoff).	100
`percentage_impacted`	float	Calculation: `employees_impacted`/`total_employees`	0.52
`layoff_or_closing_date`	string	Date on which the layoffs or closure will occur.	2020-05-20

JSON Sample:

{
        "warn_act_notifications": [
            {
                "layoff_or_closing": "layoff",
            "notice_received_date": "2020-03-20",
            "employees_impacted": 52,
            "total_employees": 100,
            "percentage_impacted": 0.52,
            "layoff_or_closing_date": "2020-05-20",
            "reason": "Unforeseeable business circumstances prompted by COVID-19"
         }
      ]
   }

Time structure:

Event stream. Each notification event is listed separately with a date associated with it

Timeliness:

FL, MD, VA, CA, and TX are refreshed twice a month
LA, NC, IL, NY, AZ have been ingested in the past but are not actively collected anymore

Data sources:

Enigma’s retrieves WARN Act notifications from 10 states. These 10 states account for a large percentage of WARN ACT filings in the U.S.
- The 10 states are CA, LA, NC, FL, MD, IL, NY, VA, AZ, TX

Methodology: