Like many of you, I got my notice earlier this morning. The attached paperwork said my last day on the books is 4/10, however I was expecting a 60 day notice due out of Redwood Shores to the WARN Act, but I am considered a remote employee. Is anyone else in this boat? Do you think Oracle is getting around the CA WARN act somehow ?
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@OP I was Rif’d today. California in-office employee. I too am only getting thru April 10th. I am not a remote worker. How am I not eligible for WARN?
@OP I think as long as they pay you for those 60 days they can terminate you sooner, plus your severance on top.
I just went through this at Verizon. I was remote but reported to a Hub location where I received my direction and my manager was located and according to WARN that should count. Bottom line is you won't win, the lawyers know what they are doing and its not worth losing the severance over.
@OP I’m remote as well and I have the same 4/10 termination date. I’ve heard the rules are different for remote workers but not sure of that.
@OP that’s rough. I was RWS, but remote and let go last fall. Still got 60 days garden leave, then severance after that date. But, the 60 days garden leave still counted as weeks used to calculate the weeks of severance, so if get 16 weeks, the first 8 weeks were really the garden leave, then I got paid out for the balance. I got my normal paycheck during garden leave and my RSUs vested as normal during that time.
Every state has their own version of the warn act. That means an employer has to have a certain amount of employees in that specific state in order to trigger public notice that the percentage has met the minimum requirement to require reporting by the state. If Oracle has over a 165000 employees worldwide and a few hundred people are laid off in one state, fat does not necessarily trigger a reporting requirement for Oracle. Also, public news reports for the last month already.Forecasted up to thirty thousand people being laid off. Public reporting does not generally mean they complied with the warn notice in a given state. Even if they had given you notice of the layoff, the only recourse you have as an atwell employee is unemployment.
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