When a company closes its doors, the WARN Act requires advance notice to workers losing their jobs. But what about employees who work from home? A federal judge just signaled that “remote” doesn’t mean “exempt.” Continue reading
You’ll find an important update if you head over to the official Layoffs and Closings website for New Jersey’s Department of Labor & Workforce Development. Continue reading
In December, I warned you that New Jersey’s Mini-WARN Act might get that employee-friendly overhaul sooner than you think.
That prediction has borne fruit. (Especially for NJ employee-rights class action lawyers.)
Under a federal law called the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, businesses with 100 or more employees must provide affected workers with 60 days’ notice before a big layoff. It’s a bit more nuanced than that. But, for this blog post, the details aren’t so important.
What does matter today is that New Jersey has its own mini-WARN Act called the Millville Dallas Airmotive Plan Job Loss Notification Act. And it looks like a long-overdue employee-friendly update is about to happen . . . much sooner than many employers thought.
It depends on who you ask. According to the plaintiffs and their counsel in this recently filed first amended complaint, the social media giant violated the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN). One of the plaintiffs upped the ante with a separate unfair labor practice charge, which he filed at the National Labor Relations Board. He claims that Twitter violated Sections 8(a)(1) and 8(a)(3) of the National Labor Relations Act by laying him off in retaliation for concerted protected activity.
So, let’s talk about these two federal workplace laws. Continue reading
Days since I’ve blogged about COVID-19 = 78 0. Continue reading
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News of a New York-based online mortgage lender’s CEO terminating over 900 employees with no notice on a three-minute Zoom call has been dominating my Google Alerts recently. Continue reading
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