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The uncertainties of the recent wave of mass layoffs have prompted the government to initiate the WARN Act which is a set of guidelines setting the proper way mass layoffs should be conducted. It clearly defines the roles and responsibilities of both employer and employee for the protection of the welfare of people who are about to lose their jobs. The act states how the government is to oversee that the people who are about to lose their jobs are entitled to the many programs that have been initiated by them to prepare them for further employment. Learning new rules as they settle into their new lives in the ranks of the unemployed, in preparation for possible employment in another field. It also enumerates the specific benefits employees are to get from the firm and the government should they meet the qualification criteria set within the document.