Geez. Lazy duuuumb koff. Try an Internet Search ("warn act"). You get this: http://www.doleta.gov/programs/factsht/warn.htm "In general, employers are covered by WARN if they have 100 or more employees, not counting employees who have worked less than 6 months in the last 12 months and not counting employees who work an average of less than 20 hours a week. Private, for-profit employers and private, nonprofit employers are covered, as are public and quasi-public entities which operate in a commercial context and are separately organized from the regular government. Regular Federal, State, and local government entities which provide public services are not covered." Exceptions for WARN Act are listed, but they don't apply to Novartis in this current reduction.