Let our Rapid Response Team show you how planning ahead for a layoff can make the process smoother, reducing the negative aspects of the event for employers and workers.

We can help:

Identify and help your employees access public programs like unemployment insurance, job placement assistance and retraining opportunities.

Coordinate an onsite visit from the Rapid Response Team to provide information on these programs to affected workers.

For large, permanent layoffs

Let us help you set up a reemployment committee made up of company officials, impacted employees, Idaho Department of Labor consultants and community service providers to coordinate information and resources. 

Planning provides:

  • Increased company and employee involvement
  • Enhanced job placement efforts
  • Improved communication between the workers and program representatives
  • Improved program coordination
  • Increased use of available services

Downsizing as a result of foreign trade

Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA)

TAA is a federal program that assists workers who have lost their jobs as a result of foreign imports/exports of products or services by providing affected workers with opportunities to obtain training, resources and support to become reemployed. The program is offered at no cost to the employer.

If a company is downsizing as a result of foreign trade, a petition is filed at the U.S. Department of Labor. A petition may be filed through one of four ways: a company official, a state TAA representative, two or more workers or a union representative. If the department determines criteria has been met to certify the petition, individual workers at that company who are impacted can apply for benefits offered by TAA.

File a petition

Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act

The U.S. Department of Labor WARN Act requires covered employers to give workers written notice at least 60 calendar days before plant closings and mass layoffs. A WARN notice must be provided to either affected workers or their representatives, the Idaho dislocated worker unit and to the appropriate unit of local government.

Contact

Email: RapidResponse@labor.idaho.gov

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