Recently, Better.com CEO Vishal Garg sacked over 900 employees on a Zoom video call, causing shock and disappointment ahead of the festive season. While layoffs are a common occurrence in the corporate world, the pandemic has worsened the situation. Two city-based experts share how people can deal with layoffs better
Is COVID a natural disaster under WARN Act? COVID forced employers to furlough, lay off employees, sometimes for longer than anticipated, sometimes triggering Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act WARN Act, requiring employer to give employees 60 days notice.
Is COVID a natural disaster under WARN Act? COVID forced employers to furlough, lay off employees, sometimes for longer than anticipated, sometimes triggering Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act WARN Act, requiring employer to give employees 60 days notice.
COVID forced employers to furlough, layoff employees. Some operations were closed, others furloughed employees for various periods of time, often longer than planned. Some cases triggered WARN Act, requiring employer to give employees suffering job loss 60 days notice.
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The Eleventh Circuit Could Tackle Whether COVID-19 is a Disaster for WARN Purposes with Companies Facing Continued Layoffs Friday, March 5, 2021
While COVID-19 may have hit the business community like a hurricane, whether the pandemic, in fact, qualifies for a natural disaster exception under the federal law requiring businesses to warn employees of impending layoffs, remains an open question.
This February, a federal judge paved the way for the Eleventh Circuit to weigh in on whether a class action can proceed against an employer who was forced to lay off employees due to COVID-19. That case,
Benson v. Enter. Leasing Co. of Orlando, LLC, is one of the first to look at the application of pandemic-related layoffs to the Worker Adjustment Retraining Notification Act of 1988, 29 U.S.C. § 2100