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§1315 Rights and Protections Under Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act

Title 2 › CHAPTER 24 — CONGRESSIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY › SUBCHAPTER II — EXTENSION OF RIGHTS AND PROTECTIONS › Part A — Employment Discrimination, Family and Medical Leave, Fair Labor Standards, Employee Polygraph Protection, Worker Adjustment and Retraining, Employment and Reemployment of Veterans, and Intimidation › § 1315

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Employing offices must give written notice at least 60 days before closing an office or ordering a mass layoff. The notice must go to employee representatives or, if none, to the employees themselves. Covered employee: includes employees of the Government Accountability Office. Employing office: includes the Government Accountability Office. If an employer breaks this rule, the remedy is the same as the remedies in paragraphs (1), (2), and (4) of section 5(a) of the WARN Act (29 U.S.C. 2104(a)(1), (2), and (4)). The Board must write rules to carry out these requirements under section 1384. Those rules should match the Department of Labor’s rules unless the Board shows a good reason to change them. The notice and remedy rules start 1 year after January 23, 1995. For the Government Accountability Office and the Library of Congress, they start 1 year after the study under section 1371 is sent to Congress.

Title 2, §1315

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(a)Worker adjustment and retraining notification rights

(1)In general

No employing office shall be closed or a mass layoff ordered within the meaning of section 3 of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (29 U.S.C. 2102) until the end of a 60-day period after the employing office serves written notice of such prospective closing or layoff to representatives of covered employees or, if there are no representatives, to covered employees.

(2)Definitions

For purposes of this section, the term “covered employee” shall include employees of the Government Accountability Office and the term “employing office” shall include the Government Accountability Office.

(b)Remedy

The remedy for a violation of subsection (a) shall be such remedy as would be appropriate if awarded under paragraphs (1), (2), and (4) of section 5(a) of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (29 U.S.C. 2104(a)(1), (2), and (4)).

(c)Regulations to implement section (d) Effective date

(1)In general

The Board shall, pursuant to section 1384 of this title, issue regulations to implement this section.

(2)Agency regulations

The regulations issued under paragraph (1) shall be the same as substantive regulations promulgated by the Secretary of Labor to implement the statutory provisions referred to in subsection (a) except insofar as the Board may determine, for good cause shown and stated together with the regulation, that a modification of such regulations would be more effective for the implementation of the rights and protections under this section.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2018—Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 115–141 struck out “and the Library of Congress” after “the Government Accountability Office” in two places. 2004—Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 108–271 substituted “Government Accountability Office” for “General Accounting Office” in two places. Subsec. (d)(2). Pub. L. 108–271 substituted “Government Accountability Office” for “General Accounting Office” in heading and text.