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Workforce Investment Boards
WARN notices go to the Workforce Investment Boards, who also sometimes track major expansions that they are providing job applicants with State incentives.
In the East Bay, there are two County agencies and two city agencies as well as a local one-stop assistance centers under the East Bay Works:
Alameda County Workforce Investment Board
The ACWIB provides employment, training and economic development services for youth, job seekers and employers. Employer services include recruiting workers, locating training grants and providing outplacement services when businesses face downsizing.A Warn Notice list is available here
Contra Costa County Workforce Development Board
Contra Costa County, in collaboration with Alameda County, has developed
a system of One Stop Career and Business Centers, under the name of
EASTBAY Works (http://www.eastbayworks.org), to serve both job seekers
and employers.
City of Oakland Workforce Investment Board
The City of Oakland provides customized workforce identification and training services designed to meet your company’s workforce needs.Local Business and Job Seeker Resources
A unique joint venture of public entities, non-profit agencies, and private organizations in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties helping businesses and job seekers meet their employment needs.
Employment Development Department
EDD finds qualified employees
for employers and provides specialized recruitment campaigns and
provides job seeker services including referrals, job search assistance,
workshops and placement. Local offices in Concord, Fremont, Hayward,
Oakland & Richmond
Employment Training Panel
Today's high-tech and global economy requires California workers to be equipped with the most advanced skills. The Employment Training Panel offers effective job training that is more essential today than ever before.
Resources for Businesses & Employees downsizing
In 1989 the federal government enacted the WARN Act, requiring affected employers to notify employees of impending layoffs and plant closures in advance.
In California the State provides a place to file while also providing resources for the business as well as those being laid of, using its WARN Notice program.
WARN protects employees by notifying them in advance of the impending layoffs so that: Workers have time to make necessary adjustments and begin looking for new jobs. The free WIA services described in these pages can be made available to employees. WIB staff can work with the employer to try and avert the plant closure or downsizing.
In California, the Act requires employers with 75 (in California AB 257) or more full-time employees to take certain actions if they are about to:
* Close a facility or operating unit is shut down for more than six months, or when 50 or more employees lose their jobs during any 30-day period at a single site of employment.
* Lay off 50 to 499 workers, when the layoff constitutes 33% or more of the active work force at a single site.
* Lay off 500 or more workers at any single site.
In addition, these employers are required to give 60 days advance notice of any layoff.
Failure to give such notice can result in an employer's liability to pay laid-off employees the 60 days worth of back pay and benefits they would have been entitled to receive had notice been given.