Reducing Your Work Force

Changes to Your Business
How to report name, address, and ownership changes; about selling or closing your business; purchasing a business with employees; and what to do if you no longer have employees.
Downsizing Assistance
Your local Workforce Services Office or One-Stop Career Center can assist you with information about downsizing and how to help your employees find other jobs. Special services include Rapid Response Teams, guidance in obtaining funding, and outplacement and career transition services.
Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act
Requires certain employers to give affected employees at least 60 days written advance notice of any plant closing or mass layoff.
Partial Claims
A partial unemployment insurance claim can be used for any claimant who works less than normal full-time hours because of lack of work.
Work Sharing
As a temporary alternative to layoffs, this program allows the payment of a prorated percentage of UI benefits to workers whose hours and wages are reduced. When business conditions improve, you can quickly gear up without the expense of recruiting, hiring, and training new employees. In turn, your employees are spared the hardship of full unemployment.