Excerpt from Reemployment Act and Warn Make Successful Transitions: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Labor of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources United States Senate One Hundred Third Congress Second Session on Authorizing Funds to State and Local Government to Provide Job Search a Provide Job Search Assistance The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:18 a.m., in room SD-30, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Senator Howard M. Metzenbaum (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senators Metzenbaum and Wellstone. Opening Statement of Senator Metzenbaum Senator Metzenbaum. This morning the Labor Subcommittee will hear testimony on the Reemployment and Retraining Act of 1994 and the Warn Amendments Act. These bills address one of the most serious issues facing working men and women today - worker dislocation. I think it is important that we hear from the witnesses and the chair is under considerable pressure to be in another meeting at 10:00 and I am trying to work it out. So I am going to put the balance of my statement in the record. [The prepared statement of Senator Metzenbaum follows: ] Prepared Statement of Senator Metzenbaum This morning the Labor Subcommittee will hear testimony on the Reemployment and Retraining Act of 1994 and the Warn Amendments Act. These bills address one of the most serious issues facing working men and women - today worker dislocation. The changing economy has meant that more and more Americans find themselves without a job. Between 1987 and 1992, 15 million Americans lost their jobs. Seven million are currently unemployed. Increasingly, dislocated workers have to find not only new jobs, but new careers. This trend affects all Americans - from workers on the factory floor to CEO's - who are facing a new workplace with changing skill requirements and little or no job security. The administrations response has been the Reemployment Act which I introduced on behalf of President Clinton and Secretary Reich. Their vision is to create a state of the art reemployment guidance in their job search, referral and funding to retrain for a new career, and income support to allow for longer, more effective training. I commend the administration for its attention to this issue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Congress has passed legislation to facilitate the reemployment of workers who through no fault of their own are let go by their employers. Among these laws is the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, P.L. 100-379, enacted in 1988. This report discusses the WARN Act in brief, especially as related to Congress's renewed interest in the Act due to the current financial crises and recession.