Thread regarding Molina Healthcare Inc. layoffs

The point of Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) is to protect employees, their families, and communities by requiring employers to notify affected employees and state/local representatives about the elimination of jobs, 60 days BEFORE the job will be eliminated. To be clear, an example of the “representatives” here is the utterly useless Pacific Gateway bologna Molina was throwing “networking” parties with. They were doing that because they are required to support former employees via WARN. It is a perfunctory task, yielding nothing more than giving a bunch of former Molina HR people (FOM people) jobs for a while. What a joke that was/is. The WARN Notice is supposed to provide advance notice of job loss, giving employees and their families time to transition/adjust to the prospective loss of employment, time to seek alternative jobs and, time to obtain skills training/retraining to compete in the job market (stuff Pacific Gateway was contracted to do for the MHC and MHI employees). This is why, when Molina does mass layoffs, the employee is notified, sent home and told they will continue to be paid for 60 days. That isn’t severance. That isn’t generosity. That’s the result of WARN and mistrust. Some lay offs haven’t been subject to WARN because they were under the trigger threshold. That threshold differs depending on number of employees working and affected by the lay off. For more info on this for California, cut and paste the link below, into your browser. There is no required timing of the compiled listing of the notices (aka WARN Report). WARN Notice is what Molina must provide to the State/Feds, regarding layoffs. WARN Report is the compilation of data from the WARN Notices. Per the California EDD site, notices are “expeditiously” processed and the local area is notified usually on the State’s unemployment website. While there doesn’t seem to be a requirement around how often the reports are created or when they post, we know WARN requires 60 day warning (to the affected workers and the local/State agencies) of a large layoff. It is likely a layoff that occurred in September of 2017 did appear on the WARN prior to it being effective 60 days later. Basically, the WARN Report will include notices that have already manifested and some still within their 60 days. Regardless, the WARN Report is useful to gauge if your job is predicted to be ending. It won’t tell you precisely if your title is getting cut....but you will know if there’s a big Molina lay off about to occur in your state or if one occurred recently in your state or another state . That WARN Report is telling of other general observations and trends. Keep in mind, only lay offs occurring in large numbers are required to be reported via WARN. Layoffs have not stopped. They just aren’t happening in numbers that require reporting per WARN. It is convenient to let people go in smaller numbers so it stays off the radar. WARN also requires company closures and sales be reported. That is the WARN Report we will benefit most from seeing. I agree with the original poster here.....I hope we see one soon in our respective states. If there’s a requirement around how frequently they must be posted or a time frame they have to be posted, it would be great if that info is shared here. To my knowledge, the States and Feds haven’t given themselves a time requirement for that...shocking. LOL! Good luck everyone. Stay informed. Know your rights. Don’t presume they are being honored. Don’t presume your supervisor knows your future and by no means presume the good workers were let go or that the bad workers were let go. Those decisions are made by the dollars to be saved and algorithms....not based on quality of work or need. Don’t expect things to make good business sense unless you keep in mind that Molina is a prime target for a takeover. Stay aware. Talk to your former coworkers about how their job searches have gone and by all means be prepared to be unemployed. Don’t count on severance as some people haven’t gotten in. Hang in there.

https://www.edd.ca.gov/jobs_and_training/layoff_services_warn.htm#ListingofWARNNotices

WARN doesn't show future layoffs, it only shows after they have been executed.

It should be coming any day now. Please keep us posted.