New state law adds penalties for layoffs without notice
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  Businesses with 50 or more workers who lay people off without giving 90 days notice can be fined up to $500 a day under a bill signed by Gov. David Paterson, state Labor Commissioner Patricia Smith announced today.
The federal government already has a law requiring notice, but since it carried no penalties it was often ignored, said Labor Department spokesman Leo Rosales.
“This is to prevent someone showing up for work one day and finding the gates locked,’’ Rosales said.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
