Iowa WARN Act Filings

What is the Iowa WARN Act?

The federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act requires employers with 100 or more full-time employees to provide at least 60 calendar days advance written notice before a plant closing or mass layoff. In Iowa, these notices are filed with the state labor department and are a matter of public record.

A "mass layoff" under WARN is defined as a reduction in force that results in an employment loss at a single site during any 30-day period for 500 or more full-time employees, or for 50–499 full-time employees if they make up at least 33% of the workforce. "Plant closings" refer to the permanent or temporary shutdown of a single employment site.

Iowa WARN data is published by the state labor department as State Labor Department and updated regularly. LayoffCentral.com aggregates this data to make it searchable and accessible to workers, researchers, journalists, and attorneys.