I think perhaps that's why poster used "for this situation" -- if a company doesn't want to have to provide advance notice, their only option with WARN is to do

I think perhaps that's why poster used "for this situation" -- if a company doesn't want to have to provide advance notice, their only option with WARN is to do it with this kind of severance payment. Not sure if it was intended but that's a pretty cool outcome of the law.