R.E.A.C.T.

Bottom Line
Receive mitigation assistance to avoid massive layoffs or receive emergency response for your workers if massive layoffs are inevitable

Summary
The REACT program coordinates efforts at state and local levels to implement layoff aversion activities and mitigate the impact of unavoidable layoffs. It assists workers who have or will be dislocated from their jobs due to a business or plant closure, a major downsizing, or a natural disaster (eg. flood, fire, hurricane, or tornado). For business, it provides industry analysis and early warning indicators, in the hopes of preventing layoffs.

Requirements

• Private or Public, Profit or Non-Profit, business with 100 or more employees
  
• Layoff fifty (50) or more workers, or face the prospect of doing so

Process
File a WARN notice by sending the following information:

1. Name and address of the employment site where the layoff will occur
   
2. Nature of the planned action
   
3. Expected date of the first separation and the anticipated schedule for the rest
   
4. Job titles of positions to be affected and number of affected employees in each
   
5. Statement as to the existence of any applicable bumping rights
   
6. Name of each union representing affected employees (if applicable), and the name and address of the chief elected officer of each union
   
7. Name, address, and telephone number of a company official to contact for additional information
   
   Attention: Mr. Gene Rhodes
   Acting Administrator, REACT Program
   MSC 229, 107 E. Madison Street
   Tallahassee, FL 32399-4137

Documentation
No specific form exists for the WARN notice. The REACT Program must receive it, in writing, with all required data listed above, at least 60 days prior to the closing or layoff.

* Reemployment and Emergency Assistance Coordination Team