Timing and how to get around the WARN Act

Happening the 2nd week of December.
Start looking at conference room blocks.

Likely on Wednesday.

I’ve heard the total reductions for the year will be around +20% company wide. - They have staggered them throughout the year to limit visibility. (Plants/Regions/HQ/removing open roles and now the great “re-org”)

We haven’t seen a WARN notice, so how might they be getting around it? (Please add if you know other ways)

Paying in-lieu of notice: Instead of providing the 60-day notice, a company may choose to pay employees for the 60-day period plus any benefits they would have received.

Forced attrition: Some companies may attempt to reduce their workforce by placing good employees on performance improvement plans (PIPs) with the hope that they will quit, thus avoiding severance and WARN Act obligations.

Notice +60: company may give notice on a predetermined day allowing for the 60 days to transpire with employees “transitioning” during this time; (so not actually going around the rules)

#60DayNotice #ForcedAttrition #Layoffs #Reorg #WARN

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VRP is not a layoff. It’s a retirement tool to mask layoffs and rid the company of those with pensions. For those don’t know the pension is a massive benefit taken from the compensation package. Most are worth millions .

@OP Warn acts are not required for layoffs. Nobody knows how many because PepsiCo hides those details with multiple different rounds of cuts. This will be food and beverages restructuring. More and more work will move to global capability centers as those countries pay very little compared to the United States, Canada and other developed countries. Leaders do not care about quality of work, just that it saves money.

@c4 Transferring departments? Or plants?

2022 - 2023 all over again. Some will leave immediately, next wave Feb, next wave April, Next wave June. They won't tell you, but you'll also be on the "no transfer list."

Unless they are closing a facility the warn notice is not needed. Eliminating hundreds through lay off or vrp, scattered throughout multiple locations does not warrant a warm notice per the nys department of labor.

Is that for beverages or foods?

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