Wiltz v. M/G Transport Services, Inc.

SUHRHEINRICH, Circuit Judge.

The Worker Adjustment Retraining Notification Act (WARN or the Act), 29 U.S.C. §§ 2101-2109 (West Supp.1997), which provides for sixty-days advance notice to employees and their communities of a mass layoff or plant closing, is not implicated unless fifty employees are affected at a “single site of employment.” The primary question in this appeal is whether towboat-barges are separate sites such that the number of employees may not be aggregated so as to trigger WARN’s notification requirements. The district court determined that each towboat was a separate site of…