Has WARN Act been activated in any location?
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10:30pm I got the official paperwork. It officially says WARN Act.......which is the only reason I got severance as I’d been here less than a year. So YES it was activated. I’ll have to read the rest of it when I’m more coherent. Make sure they didn’t screw us any other way. Glad we at least get something. At least at NB.
Yeah, keep telling yourself that....
The business circumstances was actually foreseenable for a while at least since Miller's email.
The WARN Act doesn’t apply here, read it. There is an exception for “unforseen business circumstances” which means of course this collapse of the industry qualifies. No extended notice required. Who here believes that companies like Schlumberger, Apache, Hal etc. would knowingly violate the act? They have lawyers to keep that from happening.
Keep your head down....
https://www.doleta.gov/programs/factsht/WARN_Fact_Sheet_updated_03.06.2019.pdf
I don't believe the furlough email counts as a WARN notice. There link below is to a WARN guide for employees and lists the items that most be included in the notice, which that email did not.
https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ETA/Layoff/pdfs/WorkerWARN2003.pdf
It indirectly means in those locations severance package is at least 8 weeks.
I don't think Miller's email can work as a 60-days notice. I am not a lawyer but I think the notice should be specific to each person.
So what does that mean?
Miller’s email was to notify everyone of the layoffs so they can get out of it where they can.
Alaska on April 20
It was for North belt back when the furlough started it listed 3500 people. That was six weeks ago and if layoffs are next week they only have to give two weeks notice. To me this sounds as part of the plan they had at the beginning but just disguised it is furloughs.
It started in Fort Lupton April 13th
It was in Burleson
It was in Kilgore