No Big Penalty for Exelon Missing Closure Notices, Experts Say

A federal law requiring companies to provide advance notice of plant closings isn’t likely to slow Exelon Corp.‘s plans to shut two Illinois nuclear stations if negotiations among state lawmakers fail to keep the plants open, labor scholars said.

The federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act requires companies covered by the law to provide 60-day advance notices of plant closings and mass layoffs when the job cuts are foreseeable. Exelon has said in at least two filings with federal regulators it will permanently shut down two Illinois nuclear power stations starting in September—but it hasn’t filed required ...