prenotification

In the six states, not including New York, and two cities that have prenotification requirements, businesses have reported no such problems.

Moreover, a spokesman for the American Broadcasting Companies, after announcing layoffs, said: "The requirement for prenotification imposed no undue burden.

Prenotification also enables communities and workers, or their unions, to search for alternatives to closings, such as financing to avoid closing through loans, friendly buyouts or employee stock ownership plans.

Prenotification Negative Option Plans [PDF] Explains how negative option plans work and your rights under Federal Trade Commission's Negative Option Rule.

Employment protection refers both to regulations concerning hiring (e.g. rules favouring disadvantaged groups, conditions for using temporary or fixed-term contracts, training requirements) and firing (e.g. redundancy procedures, mandated prenotification periods and severance payments, special requirements for collective dismissals and short-time work schemes).