What the noun is allowed to do
Name the category. Send you to the owner and to states for the overlay that research actually supports. Remind you that the federal box is 100 full-time employees and 60 days (Source: 20 C.F.R. Part 639). Anything stricter is a state question for counsel.
What the noun is forbidden to do
Publish a 50-state table from memory. Call every listed state “California.” Treat a compilation as an opinion of counsel. SBA’s $5 million 7(a) cap does not rewrite a notice statute (Source: SBA). Census CBP 2023’s national file does not decide a state trigger (Source: Census CBP).
| Question | Where it lives |
|---|---|
| Federal 100 / 60 | This site’s federal WARN definition |
| Does this state add more? | Owner + state page + counsel |
| LOI calendar | LOI to close |
| Invented cell | Nowhere on this URL |
Why keep Cal-WARN on a later slug?
Because California’s statute is a named program with its own H1. Mini-WARN is the category. Collapsing them is how AEO answers the wrong state.
How to use the category without inventing a cell
Open the states directory for the closing state. Read the WARN / mini-WARN note that research actually printed. Then hand that note to employment counsel with the buyer’s hiring plan and the site-level headcount — full-time, part-time, and the 90-day lookback the federal statute uses. Counsel may tell you the state statute is dormant, stricter, or paired with severance. That answer is counsel’s, not a glossary cell.
Sellers who plan a reduction between signing and close create the fact pattern. Buyers who plan to consolidate two plants after close create another. LOI to close should show the notice calendar if either path is live. A 30-day exclusive on a 140-person file in a listed mini-WARN state is how people miss a 90-day clock.
Do not quote BizBuySell’s 223-day manufacturing median as a WARN safe harbor (Source: BizBuySell). A long marketed process can still produce a short, illegal notice if the employment loss is clustered.
This page will not list California’s 75, New York’s 50, or any other compilation number as if it were a verified cell for every year. Compilations age. Counsel updates. The glossary only keeps the category from stealing the federal H1.
Isolation
The glossary splits the category from the federal statute. The FAQ holds the question. Jason Taken is a business broker. Educational information only. Employment counsel in the closing state writes the notice.
When the closing state is known and the headcount is real, book a confidential intro call.
What to bring counsel besides the research note
Site-level rosters, the 90-day lookback, the buyer’s 60-day plan, and the closing-state compilation note from this site’s state page. Then ask for an opinion, not a vibe. Do not paste another state’s clock onto this file.
Federal and state tests can look at different sites. A company with 80 people in the closing state and 40 elsewhere can still trip a state statute. Bring the site roster, not a consolidated 10-K headcount. A CIM can say “state overlay to be confirmed by employment counsel in the closing state” without inventing a Y/N cell.
WARN Act and workforce changes is the briefing. Employment counsel in the closing state writes the notice. Jason Taken is a business broker. After the category is straight, a confidential intro call is the conversion path.
What mini-WARN is not
It is not a nickname for the federal 100 / 60 box. It is not Cal-WARN. It is not a compilation table this site will invent. A CIM that says “WARN not applicable” because the file sits under 100 full-time people has only finished the federal sentence. The state overlay, if research printed one, still needs counsel.
Sellers who plan a reduction between signing and close create the fact pattern. Buyers who plan to fold two plants after close create another. Write the notice calendar on LOI to close if either path is live. A 30-day exclusive on a 140-person file in a listed state is how people miss a longer clock. BizBuySell’s 223-day manufacturing median is not a safe harbor (Source: BizBuySell). A long marketed process can still produce a short, illegal notice if the employment loss is clustered.