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The WARN act is part of US labor law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraining_Notification_Act_of_1988 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work
by pkaye 9y ago
The WARN act is part of US labor law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraining_Notification_Act_of_1988 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraini...
For larger companies with layoffs beyond a threshold, they employer must give 60 days notice. I think they can instead give 60 days severance.
- dragonwriter 9y agoYeah, but the threshold is quite large; 500+ workers at a single site, or both 50-499 workers and over a third of the site workforce. The Stack Overflow layoffs are 60 people and 20% of their workforce, and so wouldn't (even at a single site) be subject to the WARN Act’s 60-day notice requirement.
- pkaye 9y agoTrue it could be stronger. Some states like California have more stringent versions.