Nebraska Enacts State WARN Law
On April 14, 2026, Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen signed into a new state-level Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, which requires employers with one hundred or more employees to provide a ninety-day advance notice of mass layoffs and covered business closings. 0:00 8:52 Quick Hits A new law in Nebraska (Legislative Bill 921) requires employers with one hundred or more workers to provide notice at least ninety days before a mass layoff or business closing. The law stipulates certain information that must be included in the layoff notices and how the notices may be delivered. The law will take effect on July 18, 2026. Nebraska’s mini-WARN Act, enacted under Legislative Bill (LB) 921 , defines “mass layoff” as a “reduction in employment force that is not the result of a business closing and results in an employment loss at a single site of employment during any thirty-day period of one hundred or more employees,” not including part-time employees. A business closing ...