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:
- N/A
Updated 2 months ago