The Warn (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) Act requires most employers to notify employees of an impending layoff within sixty days. The purpose of the Warn Act is to help employees and their families adjust to their imminent loss of a job, and to look for other work. Regarding employees, the law covers supervisors, managers, hourly, and salaried workers. The law does not apply to business partners. According to the Act, employee representatives such as labor unions must also receive the sixty day notice. The Warn Act is not universal, however. For instance, if a faltering company is striving, in good faith, to seek investment opportunities, and can prove that layoff notifications would hurt potential business opportunities, or if a natural disaster occurs and forces a company out of business, the Warn Act does not need to be applied.