Nearly 1,000 Illinois workers in a number of industries are set to be laid off through the first half of the year, a recent spreadsheet from the Illinois Worker Adjustment and Retraining (WARN) Act showed.
According to the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, a total of 985 employees were given layoff notices in November. The majority of those layoffs were set to begin this week and next, with some starting Jan. 19. Not all layoffs qualify for WARN Act notifications, however, since the act doesn’t cover companies below a minimum threshold of employees.
Insurance agency and brokerage Norvax LLC, with its corporate headquarters in the Merchandise Mart, began laying off 487 employees as part of a “restructuring,” the WARN report showed. One day after the layoff notice was posted, a class action law firm Strauss Borelli posted it was investigating the “recent potential mass layoff” at Norvax LLC and GoHealth LLC, which share a Chicago office address…