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§2103 Exemptions

Title 29 › Chapter CHAPTER 23— - WORKER ADJUSTMENT AND RETRAINING NOTIFICATION › § 2103

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Excluded are closings or mass layoffs caused by a temporary facility or a finished project when workers were hired as temporary, or by a strike or lockout not meant to evade the chapter. Employers need not give written notice under section 2102(a) to permanently replace an economic striker under the NLRA, and the chapter does not affect court or agency rulings on those hires.

Full Legal Text

Title 29, §2103

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This chapter shall not apply to a plant closing or mass layoff if—
(1)the closing is of a temporary facility or the closing or layoff is the result of the completion of a particular project or undertaking, and the affected employees were hired with the understanding that their employment was limited to the duration of the facility or the project or undertaking; or
(2)the closing or layoff constitutes a strike or constitutes a lockout not intended to evade the requirements of this chapter. Nothing in this chapter shall require an employer to serve written notice pursuant to section 2102(a) of this title when permanently replacing a person who is deemed to be an economic striker under the National Labor Relations Act [29 U.S.C. 151 et seq.]: Provided, That nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to validate or invalidate any judicial or administrative ruling relating to the hiring of permanent replacements for economic strikers under the National Labor Relations Act.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The National Labor Relations Act, referred to in par. (2), is act July 5, 1935, ch. 372, 49 Stat. 452, which is classified generally to subchapter II (§ 151 et seq.) of chapter 7 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 167 of this title and Tables.

Effective Date

Section effective 6 months after Aug. 4, 1988, see section 11 of Pub. L. 100–379, set out as a note under section 2101 of this title.

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Citation

29 U.S.C. § 2103

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Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73