Layoff Services

If you are facing a layoff, review the following services:

• WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act)
  
  Certain employers must give employees at least 60 days notice before a mass layoff, relocation, or plant closures.
  
  
• Rapid Response
  
  Support is available to help both workers and employers during layoffs or plant closures. Contact your local America’s Job Center of California^SM (AJCC) for more information.
  
  
• Work Sharing – Alternative to Layoff
  
  This program lets employers keep employees on a reduced schedule instead of laying them off. When business improves, they can return to normal hours without hiring and training new people.

For More Information

• WARN FAQs
• Work Sharing Information for Employees FAQs
• Work Sharing Information for Employers FAQs
• Work Sharing Employer Requirements and Criteria (DE 8686RQ) (PDF)
• Work Sharing Application (DE 8686) (PDF)
• Work Sharing Unemployment Insurance Program Fact Sheet (DE 8714BB) (PDF)
• Layoff Alternatives
• Unemployment Insurance An Alternative to Layoffs: Work Sharing (DE 2329) (PDF)

Office Locator

Use our Office Locator to find an AJCC across California and other EDD programs and services.