On January 1, 2010, the New Hampshire’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (NH WARN Act) took effect. New Hampshire private employers with 75 or more full-time employees now have to give a certain warning to local and state officials as well as their employees 60 days before they intend to close a facility. The new law also applies in situations in which a company plans to layoff more than one-third of the workforce. The purpose is to speed up the process of workers getting unemployment benefits and job retraining.

Employees and employers need to be aware of the threat of sexting in the workplace. Some people call it “textual harassment.” The problem is that offensive jokes or sexy messages may not be received well by the recipient and they can complain about textual harassment. It is another form of sexual harassment. Employees and employers should make sure that sexually explicit messages, videos, photos, etc. should not be posted or circulated in the workplace because sometime, some where, someone will be offended.