Companies are going to avoid large layoff announcements to skirt the WARN Act. The new trend is to target specific employees directly every day with small, bite-size layoffs. It won't be departments anymore, it will be me and you with a number and date already set for us.
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Guys. No one is afraid of having to comply with the WARN ACT. It’s not hard to do. They’re not afraid of word getting out. They want word getting out because it’s good for investor confidence. Focus on the flagrant age discrimination or the completely inept leadership. But rubbing your hands together over WARN act avoidance doesn’t make sense and they’re laughing at you.
Very classy our departments last day was 12/26.
Why are people so obsessed with WARN act? Has US Bank ever had to file this? Ironically now that they start consolidating people into HUBs it could happen someday. But I do not think any leaders at US Bank sit around and think about avoiding the WARN act. Gradual layoffs are just the norm in non-manufacturing financial services companies.
I work for Cigna, they do that to avoid the warn act. Thats why their names never show up.
@OP they've been doing it this way forever. When they made the announcement that the Seattle International Department in April, it was scheduled to be effective December 26th (yes the day after Christmas - classy). They laid staff off in 3 waves - June, September and December in order to avoid having to file notice. It was like pulling a scab off slowly.....
Tell us something we don't know.