---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 U.S.C. § 2106"
title: "29"
title_heading: "Labor"
number: "2106"
heading: "Procedures encouraged where not required"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/29/2106"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification"
---

# §2106. Procedures encouraged where not required


It is the sense of Congress that an [employer](/usc/29/2101.md?p=a-1) who is not required to comply with the notice requirements of [section 2102 of this title](/usc/29/2102.md) should, to the extent possible, provide notice to its employees about a proposal to close a plant or permanently reduce its workforce.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 100–379, § 7, Aug. 4, 1988, 102 Stat. 894.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective 6 months after Aug. 4, 1988, see section 11 of Pub. L. 100–379, set out as a note under section 2101 of this title.