Anyone familiar with when the warn notices go out, get filed and made public for the states that require/mandate them? If 8/8 is RIF then do notices get posted same day? Sooner? Later?
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There were no WARN notices from the October 2023 bloodbath. This fact was even called out in news articles reporting on the layoff.
WARN?
WARN notices are as useless as the legislators that crafted them. Every company knows how to work around them and legislators won’t update for how companies really behave.
Warn notices don't require 500 plus people. There was a warn notice for CA for the Woodland Hills office for 87 people. There was a warn notice for Michigan for 90 people. There was a warn notice for Minnesota for 57 people. I'd assume there would have to be notices for the numbers that are rumored to be let go. Maybe they haven't filed. This company is shady. They won't even admit they are letting people go when they are directly asked. I wouldn't put it past them to break laws and then eventually get sued. This company scares employees into not asking questions because they are told they'll lose severance. HR has shrunk and they are pretty clueless to different state laws.
WARN is only triggered if 500+ are released from a single worksite (or if fewer than that, is a third of the total workforce - since ours is so huge, will never meet that threshold). So don't expect a warn notice, or 60 days, unless they lay absolute waste to specific offices.
"Covered employers must provide notice if there will be a mass layoff which does not result from a plant closing, but will result in an employment loss at an employment site for 500 or more employees, or for 50-499 employees if they make up at least 33% of the employer’s total active workforce, during any 30 day period."
Depends on state. For CA 60 day notice.