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The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988 (the "WARN Act") is a U.S. labor law that protects employees, their families, and communities by requiring most employers with 100 or more employees to provide notification 60 calendar days in advance of planned closings and mass layoffs of employees. [1]
For instance, under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), employees over the age of forty (40) are entitled to 21 days to review and sign their severance offer. [4] If an employer requires an employee over 40 to review and sign a severance offer in less than the compliant 21 days, they must allow employees more time to review. [5]
Over the 20th century, federal law created minimum social and economic rights, and encouraged state laws to go beyond the minimum to favor employees. [4] The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 requires a federal minimum wage , currently $7.25 but higher in 29 states and D.C., and discourages working weeks over 40 hours through time-and-a-half ...
Expedia layoffs impact dozens in Austin. In an attempt to shed 9% of its global workforce, Expedia announced in February that it would be letting dozens of workers in the Austin area go. In a ...
A new study shows employees would be willing to take drastic pay cuts to save their jobs, potentially avoiding almost 30% of layoffs. ... “Employers can choose which workers to lay off; they can ...
Under the WARN Act, private for-profit companies with at least 100 full-time workers, such as Twitter, must give employees at least 60 days advance written notice when a mass layoff will affect at ...
Department of Labor poster notifying employees of rights under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 29 U.S.C. § 203 [1] (FLSA) is a United States labor law that creates the right to a minimum wage, and "time-and-a-half" overtime pay when people work over forty hours a week.
A Texas woman is prison-bound after she’s accused of embezzling $3 million from her employers over 10 years, forcing layoffs and bonus cuts. A Texas woman is prison-bound after she’s accused ...