SDWP: For Businesses Forced to Lay Off Workers

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If you are a business owner or HR representative for an employer considering work

stoppages, layoffs or furloughs, we encourage you to submit layoff notices online or call

(619) 228-2982. We will get back to you within one business day to discuss information

and services that may assist impacted employees, including Unemployment Insurance

information, tax assistance, Work Sharing program to avoid layoffs, financial planning,

remote career services and more.

We can offer your affected workers a webinar full of information and resources on how

to file for unemployment insurance, how to get re-employed as soon as possible, and

options regarding retirement assets and health insurance.  

On March 4, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Executive Order N-31-20 to ease the

the regulatory burden on employers who had to close before being able to provide

employees advanced notice related to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining

Notification (WARN).

Labor Code sections pertaining to mass layoff, relocation, and termination, which normally

requires a 60-day notice, have been temporarily suspended due to this emergency and

now only require as much notice as is practicable is provided, and when the notice is

given, a brief statement regarding the basis for reducing the notification period is

included.