State plant closing and mass layoff laws can pose pitfalls to unwary employers

2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 81-101
Author(s):  
Diane L. Prucino ◽  
Sonny Poloche
Keyword(s):  
Plant Closing ◽  
Mass Layoff

scholarly journals Policy Watch: The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act

1994 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
John T Addison ◽  
McKinley L Blackburn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Plant Closing ◽  
Industrialized Nations ◽  
Advance Notice ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Policy Watch ◽  
Mass Layoff

With the passage of the 1988 Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, the United States belatedly joined the large number of industrialized nations that require employers to provide affected workers with advance notice of a plant closing or mass layoff. The authors review the legislation, and consider the possible effects of the mandate on workers’ postdisplacement outcomes. Their examination of the impact of the law reveals that the quantity of notice has not increased since the act went into effect. The authors conclude by considering possible reasons why the law has been ineffective.

Regional Impacts of a U.S. Hog Slaughter Plant Closing: The Thorn Apple Valley Case

2006 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 531-542
Author(s):  
Kellie Curry Raper ◽  
Laura M. Cheney ◽  
Meeta Punjabi
Keyword(s):  
Plant Closing ◽  
Regional Impacts ◽  
Thorn Apple

A Note on Plant Closing Decisions: A Reply

1993 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
David W. Blackwell ◽  
M. Wayne Marr ◽  
Michael F. Spivey
Keyword(s):  
Plant Closing

Using my vocational situation with workers facing a plant closing

1993 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 289-300
Author(s):  
G. Susan Mosley-Howard ◽  
Patricia Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Plant Closing ◽  
Vocational Situation

Green Criminology and Social Justice: A Reexamination of the Lynemouth Plant Closing and the Political Economic Causes of Environmental and Social Injustice

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Lynch
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Normal Operation ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Green Criminology ◽  
Plant Closing ◽  
Developed Economies ◽  
Plant Closure ◽  
Plant Closures ◽  
The Aluminum Industry ◽  
Political Economic

Pamela Ann Davies argues that the closure of the Lynemouth, UK, aluminum smelter generated adverse social justice impacts and was caused by the adoption of green state policies. She employs that argument to critique green criminology for promoting adverse social justice impacts. Here, we reanalyze the Lynemouth plant closure. First, this reanalysis illustrates the various social and environmental forms of injustice the plant generated, especially its adverse human, nonhuman and ecological health consequences. Second, the closure is reassessed from a political economic perspective that places the plant closure within the context of global capitalist plant closures in the aluminum industry. That review notes that plant closures and deindustrialization in developed economies are now a common occurrence driven by economic concerns, not environmental policies. We point out that social injustice as well as ecological destruction are often created by the normal operation of capitalism, and that those consequences should not be overlooked.

What's wrong with plant-closing legislation and industrial policy

1985 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 28-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
James J. Chrisman ◽  
Archie B. Carroll ◽  
Elizabeth J. Gatewood
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Policy ◽  
Plant Closing
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