{"id":4458,"date":"2020-04-17T14:07:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T18:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/?p=4458"},"modified":"2025-02-05T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T16:00:00","slug":"new-jersey-delays-effective-date-of-warn-act-amendments-and-extends-the-exemption-for-layoffs-due-to-disasters-and-national-emergencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/new-jersey-delays-effective-date-of-warn-act-amendments-and-extends-the-exemption-for-layoffs-due-to-disasters-and-national-emergencies.html","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Delays Effective Date of WARN Act Amendments and Extends the Exemption for Layoffs Due to Disasters and National Emergencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the onslaught of layoffs and furloughs caused by the COVID-19 crisis, many employers found themselves caught in the crosshairs of the onerous severance and notice obligations imposed by the January 2020 Amendments to New Jersey\u2019s Millville Dallas Airmotive Plant Job Loss Notification Act (\u201cNJ WARN Act\u201d), slated to go into effect on July 19, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>To alleviate the consequences for businesses already struggling with the effects of the pandemic, on April 14, 2020 Governor Murphy signed into law a bill that delays the effective date of the NJ WARN Act amendments until 90 days after the lifting of the COVID-19 state of emergency, currently expected to expire on July 7, 2020.\u00a0\u00a0 Unless the Governor extends the state of emergency to a later date, the NJ WARN Act amendments will not go into effect until October 5, 2020.\u00a0 The new law is effective immediately and is retroactive to March 9, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>As we discussed in a prior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/nj-leads-the-way-in-mandating-severance-payments-for-laid-off-employees.html\">publication<\/a>, the NJ WARN Act was amended to significantly expand employee rights in the event of a plant closure or mass layoff.\u00a0 Among other things, the amendments<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/new-jersey-delays-effective-date-of-warn-act-amendments-and-extends-the-exemption-for-layoffs-due-to-disasters-and-national-emergencies.html\"  title=\"Continue Reading New Jersey Delays Effective Date of WARN Act Amendments and Extends the Exemption for Layoffs Due to Disasters and National Emergencies\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the onslaught of layoffs and furloughs caused by the COVID-19 crisis, many employers found themselves caught in the crosshairs of the onerous severance and notice obligations imposed by the January 2020 Amendments to New Jersey\u2019s Millville Dallas Airmotive Plant Job Loss Notification Act (\u201cNJ WARN Act\u201d), slated to go into effect on July 19, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,247],"tags":[],"coauthors":[139],"class_list":["post-4458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insights","category-labor-employment-insights"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New Jersey Delays Effective Date of WARN Act Amendments and Extends the Exemption for Layoffs Due to Disasters and National Emergencies &#8212; April 17, 2020 &#8212; Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook &amp; Cooper, P.C. 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