 obama administration violates warn act  the warn act requires employers to ldquo provide notice 60 days in advance of covered plant closings and covered mass layoffs this notice must be provided to either affected workers or their representatives eg a labor union to the state dislocated worker unit and to the appropriate unit of local government the department of labor has issued guidelines instructing pentagon contractors not to give the required notice to its employees that they might need to look for a new job the labor department s guidelines are intended to stop pentagon contractors from warning employees about possible layoffs that may come about because of sequestering obviously the president doesn rsquo t want this type of notice to get out because of the potential impact on the voting public for an article on the debate click on the following story link  http wwwthenewamericancom usnews politics item 13103whitehousetellsdefensecontractorsholdpinkslip 19  obama administration violates warn act  