WARNing Signs When Building Your Post-Pandemic Workforce
DE Talk: QuaranDEAM Edition, Episode 1: Preparing for a Reduction in Force
The media companies Paramount Global and CBS Interactive, Inc., are facing a class-action lawsuit in federal court over recent layoffs, which allegedly occurred without the proper warning. The outcome of the case may shed...more
In the first such decision from a federal appellate court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled the COVID-19 pandemic is not a “natural disaster” that exempts employers from providing advance notice of...more
The federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act requires employers to provide employees with 60 days advance notice of a plant closing or mass layoff. On Tuesday in an unreported decision, the Fourth...more
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act is a federal law that requires employers to provide advance notice to their workforce in the event of a qualified plant closing or mass layoff. With certain...more
It took less than a month for the plaintiffs’ bar to seize upon what is likely to be the first of many COVID-19-related class action lawsuits alleging violations of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, also...more