Forum sends out notices to Beeghly employees

Forum sends out notices to Beeghly employees

YOUNGSTOWN — Forum Health has sent notices to employees “potentially impacted” by the sale of Beeghly Medical Park to Akron Children’s Hospital.

The federal WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) Act of 1989 requires that employers provide notice 60 days in advance of plant closings or mass layoffs.

What triggers a WARN notice, according to a U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration, is if an employment site will be shut down causing an employment loss for 50 or more employees during any 30-day period.

Also, an employer must give WARN notice if there is to be a mass layoff which does not result from a plant closing, but which will result in a job loss during any 30-day period for 500 or more employees, or for 50 to 499 employees if they make up at least 33 percent of the active work force.

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