Mass Layoffs/Plant Closings

New and Updated

• Type:

  Editor's Choice

  Coronavirus (COVID-19): New York Compliance Concerns

  Updated to reflect the amended expiration status of COVID-19 vaccine paid leave in New York State.

• Date:

  June 22, 2022

  Type:

  News

  No COVID Exception to WARN Act, 5th Circuit Rules

  This ruling is significant because lower courts have been divided over this issue. The 5th Circuit found the WARN Act's natural disaster exception did not apply to the COVID pandemic.

• Type:

  Editor's Choice

  Coronavirus (COVID-19): California Compliance Concerns

  Updated to reflect revisions to the California COVID-19 Prevention Emergency Temporary Standards, effective May 6, 2022.

• Type:

  Employment Law Manual

  Mass Layoffs, Reductions in Force and Plant Closings: California

  Updated to reflect amendments to Long Beach COVID-19 worker recall and retention ordinances to make them permanent, effective April 16, 2022.

• Type:

  Editor's Choice

  Coronavirus (COVID-19): Recall and Retention Ordinances

  Updated to reflect forthcoming amendments to Long Beach COVID-19 worker recall and retention ordinances to make them permanent.

• Type:

  Employment Law Manual

  Mass Layoffs, Reductions in Force and Plant Closings: New Jersey

  Updated to reflect a new law regarding hotel service employees' retention rights with successor employers, effective January 18, 2022.

• Date:

  December 15, 2021

  Type:

  Editor's Choice

  Mass Layoffs, Reductions in Force and Plant Closings: Employment Law Manual Section Renamed

  XpertHR has made it easier to find developments relating to mass layoffs, reductions in force and plant closings.

• Date:

  December 7, 2021

  Type:

  News

  WARN Act Notice Not Required for Contractors' Employees, 4th Circuit Rules

  The federal appellate court finds that a company need not provide advance notice of a layoff or plant closing to its contractors' employees because there is no direct employment relationship.

• Type:

  Employment Law Manual

  Mass Layoffs, Reductions in Force and Plant Closings: Maryland

  Updated to reflect amendments to the state mini-WARN law, effective October 1, 2021.

• Type:

  Employment Law Manual

  Mass Layoffs, Reductions in Force and Plant Closings: New York

  Updated to reflect law regarding New York City fast food employee layoffs and wrongful discharge protections for fast food workers, effective July 4, 2021.