WARN Act violated when employer shuts down without notice to workers.(Workers Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act)(Metalworking an d the Law)

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A company violated the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification
Act when it clos down individual of its operating units and laid not upon employees
without prior notice, a federal court in Rhode Island has rul

Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Co operated a factory in North Kingstown,
R.I., where it manufactured a variety of industrial proceedss The
company consisted of four divisions: Corporate, Measuring a whole s
(MSD), Machine Tool (MT) and Precision Tool (PT) In mid-1989, the
company created the Consolidated Parts Department (CPD) which consolidated
the parts