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During difficult economic times, when employers are reducing expenses by reducing headcount, some employers mistakenly ignore their legal obligations. A reduction in force does not relieve an employer of its obligation to not discriminate or retaliate based on protected class.

New Jersey’s governor Phil Murphy signed legislation that will make sweeping changes to New Jersey’s mini WARN law. These changes become effective on April 10, 2023. Let's compare the original NJWARN and amended NJWARN including new definitions of key terms.

New Jersey Senate passed Assembly Bill No. 4768 to implement drastic expansion to New Jersey Millville Dallas Airmotive Plant Job Loss Notification Act and require that employers provide employees with 90 days’ notice and severance pay in connection with mass-layoff events.

AmeriSave Mortgage Corp. is accused by a group of former employees of failing to pay their wages, bonuses and commissions.

One TikToker is letting people know how to get advanced notice of a layoff to prevent feeling ambushed by employers.

Recent tech layoffs provide reminder of WARN Act importance. Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act is federal law that requires employers to provide advance notice and planning mechanisms to workforce and communities in event of plant closing or mass layoff.

A TikToker educated her audience on the finer points of the WARN Act, which requires companies to reveal layoffs they're planning to make.

Employers often consider five key work streams at the initial planning stages of a reduction in force including WARN Act requirements, selection criteria, statistical review and disparate impact, multistate releases, and Older Workers Benefit Protection Act disclosures.

Wells Fargo & Co. and two other creditors have filed a petition to force United Furniture Industries Inc. into liquidating its assets as part of an involuntary federal bankruptcy protection

Under the recently proposed Enhancing American Retirement Now Act the EARN Act – S.4808, a donor may only take advantage of a qualified distribution to fund a split interest gift once during her or his lifetime and the funding is limited to $50,000.