It depends on whether you are represented by a union or not. If a union represents you, your employer must give 60 days' written notice to the union. Your union representative will decide how and when you are given notice. If you are not represented by a union, notice must be given to you directly. However, if your employer has a bumping system and there is no union contract things may work differently. Your employer must make a good faith effort to determine who will actually lose their job as the result of the seniority system. A bumping system allows a worker whose job has been cut to choose from a number of other jobs, which may lead to other workers being displaced. Because of the complexity of the bumping system, it can be very difficult for your employer to predict exactly who's going to lose their job.. If your employer cannot exactly predict who will lose their job as a result of a complex bumping system, your employer must give notice to the person whose job is being eliminated even though that person may later bump another worker. Your employer must also provide notice to the State dislocated worker unit and to the chief elected official of the unit of local government in which the employment site is located.