Did Erie violate federal law in December 2015 when they layed off 74? Employees were not given the mandatory 60 day notice of a layoff to occur affecting 50 or more. Are those affected by the layoff entitled to compensation under federal law.
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The United States Department of Labor (DOL) WARN act states that it requires, “employers with 100 or more employees (generally not counting those who have worked less than six months in the last 12 months and those who work an average of less than 20 hours a week) to provide at least 60 calendar days’ advance written notice of a plant closing and mass layoff affecting 50 or more employees at a single site of employment” (Prucino, & Poloche, 2009, pg. 82).
WARN applies to any business enterprise whose employee’s, “aggregate work at least 4,000 hours per week, exclusive of overtime” (Meder, 2006, pg. 59). This means that exempt employee’s and new hires who regularly work 50 or more hours per week can create WARN coverage notices where such coverage otherwise might not have existed
in what manner do you mean "after witnessing what just happened" as there is plenty of directions and plenty of history of unbelievable actions
No blame to interns or new employees but after witnessing what just happened I will never help or assist a new employee or intern with anything again. Sorry folks ... if you have a question, go ask your manager. At FMC it's now every person for themselves. Forget the rest.
Don't blame the interns or those just starting out, they didn't have anything to do with the decisions made by upper level management. If they have a false sense of entitlement I haven't seen it. Everyone, young and old, is just trying to get by - those "youngsters" have plenty of chips stacked against them already, let's not start blaming them for others misfortune as well.
A message to all you youngsters, interns and rookies coming from the dedicated and experienced employees who welcomed, embraced and mentored you until you replaced them, don't let your success go to your head. You didn't earn anything. Just got lucky. If you can call it that.
I believe that the poor handling and filled follow up positions qualify for a class action age discrimination case
The WARN Act does not apply if the layoff involves less than 33% of the workforce. This does vary by state, as some states have their own WARN act, such as Texas.
Yes there were more than 222 employees in Dec 2015. If WARN is a federal law then how is it that it does not apply to all and only some were given a 60 day notice? Seems to me that those not included in the WARN are entitled to 60 days salary.
There were a select few, the Erie fishing club members that were given a 60 day layoff notice and extended their employment for two more months, they were the privileged , the majority of the lay-offed people were just tossed to the streets without warning in December.
Was there more than 222 employees at the Erie plant in December of 2015?
out with the old in with the young