Doing research, I’ve learned that in Indiana, when a company of 50 or more FT employees “lays off” 50 or employees at one time, they have to give employees a “warn” notice. Meaning they have to advise the employee within 60 days of being “laid off”. How is advising on 8/8 with an end date of 9/6, sixty days?? Additionally, by law, a RIF means the affected employee cannot apply back into the company that they were RIF from. Can anyone provide further insight into these things?
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Elevance has had WARN notices for a while for a few states. Nothing recent. https://data.usatoday.com/see-which-companies-announced-mass-layoffs-closings/?query=elevance
Reading through the WARN Act at
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/layoffs/warn
There appears to be a bit of wiggle room as to what causes a notification to be required
Regardless, RIFs here will continue as they have since the company went public
Good luck to all!
WARN is a federal regulation and requires additional notice time if WARN is triggered. WARN has nothing to do with whether or not you receive a package. And for what it's worth, everyone who is RIFd gets a separation package.
These aren’t really layoffs. People are getting fired. You can get hired back into the company after a RIF.
I am in that situation now in IN. I was rifed but am playing out the full time required by the state. They space out rifs for that reason. Some IN prople were rifed in July like me. They could have split the IN or CA rifs into different months to prevent the warn notice.
No personal experience on rif return. Not sure that I could stomach it. But there are people who have come back from multiple rifs. Is that in IN law? It makes sense. That would benefit you. It prevents the company from using a RIF as a way to push out people they can't yet fire. Like needs improvement people which is what I think they do. They also can't rif you and then immediately rehire your exact position. So say you're rifed. They have to wait a period of time to recreate that job. It prevents them from rifing you and immediately hiring cheaper labor. That's why CGS is CGS. They don't have our same job titles. So they can immediately replace our function and call it a reorg. Wow. Maybe I'm onto something.
I believe WARN notices are for employees who do not receive packages, and RIFd employees can always apply for an internal position.
Every state has different WARN guidelines. Not all employees that will be laid off reside in the state of IN. It goes by where the employee actually works. Not the state the companies headquarter is in. We are spread all over the USA.