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On June 14, 2012, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) introduced a bill in the Senate that would bolster protections to dislocated workers by amending the Workers Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN). WARN, as it currently stands, requires employers with 100 or more employees to notify their employees and the surrounding community in advance of plant closures and mass layoffs of 50 or more employees. Critics of WARN claim that it only covers 24 percent of all layoffs, and employers only comply about one-third of the time.Continue reading this entry