Third Quarter filing due date is October 31, 2024.

Vermont's new hire reporting law requires all Vermont employers to report their new employees to the Vermont Department of Labor within 10 days of the date of hire, as well as rehired employees if their previous employment was terminated at least 60 days prior to their first day of employment. Vermont requires employers to report new hires electronically.

If you have laid off or furloughed employees and have recalled those employees back to work for the same rate of pay, even for a reduced number of hours, they must accept the offer of work.

If employees were offered work performing the same job and for the same rate of pay prior to the layoff and refuse to work, please report that to the Department immediately by submitting a Refusal to Return to Work report.

Project WorkSAFE is a free and confidential service offered by the Vermont Department of Labor to help employers understand and comply with occupational safety and health requirements. Any employer doing business in Vermont can request help with written program development, on-site hazard identification, assistance with hazard correction, and Industrial Hygiene services including air and noise monitoring. To schedule a visit to your worksite, or have your safety and health questions answered, call 1-888-SAFE-YES

Mandatory Posters can be printed for free from the Department's website at www.labor.vermont.gov under Workplace Rights & Wages, then Workplace Posters. Please note, the Vermont Department of Labor will never conduct outreach to employers attempting to sell these posters.

The Vermont Department of Labor, Workforce Development Division, provides Rapid Response services to businesses in transition; downsizing, laying off workers, and/or closing a facility.

The Rapid Response Team responds to layoffs and plant/facility closures by quickly coordinating services and providing immediate aid to affected companies and their workers, either on-site or off-site. The Team will provide information about unemployment insurance and reemployment services, and services available at the Resource Centers around the state. Pre-layoff services are designed to help the affected workers shorten their transition time and assist in preparing the affected workers to find new employment.

The WARN Act (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) offers protection to workers, their families and communities by requiring employers to provide a notice 60 days in advance of covered plant closings and mass layoffs. This notice must be provided to either affected workers or their representatives (e.g. a labor union); to the State Dislocated Worker Unit; and to the appropriate unit of local government.

Notices of Potential Layoff (WARN) should be sent to:

Vermont Department of Labor

Commissioner's Office

5 Green Mountain Drive

P.O. Box 488

Montpelier, VT 05601-0488

labor.commissioner@vermont.gov

Questions regarding workforce development services related to a layoff should be directed to:

Vermont Department of Labor

Workforce Development Division

Nermin.Elozovic@vermont.gov

Resources:

• WARN/Notice of Potential Layoffs: https://labor.vermont.gov/warn-act-and-notice-potential-layoffs-act
• Rapid Response: https://labor.vermont.gov/document/rapid-response-updated-march-2020
• WARN Act: https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/termination/plantclosings