WARN only kicks in at a 100 people or more laid off, and it only gives you 60 days notice, not any extra pay or benefits.
Its basically the least they can do, and the 100 person threshold gives lots of orgs plently of room to skirt it by doing small, and steady layoffs instead.
It also has to be enforced. Musk laid off thousands of people at Twitter and didnt follow WARN, just paid them 60 days instead. He was sued by individual people, but didnt suffer any penalty for breaking the law itself.
You can both end your employment immediately, and just like it’s nice of you to give notice it’s also nice of them to give severance pay
I imagine the majority of employees are not getting any kind of severance.
And severance pay and notice of layoffs are de facto fairly common in corporate America.
Notice of layoffs and layoff severance are required by WARN act. It’s not just a defacto thing, it was a hard fought victory for labor rights
WARN only kicks in at a 100 people or more laid off, and it only gives you 60 days notice, not any extra pay or benefits.
Its basically the least they can do, and the 100 person threshold gives lots of orgs plently of room to skirt it by doing small, and steady layoffs instead.
It also has to be enforced. Musk laid off thousands of people at Twitter and didnt follow WARN, just paid them 60 days instead. He was sued by individual people, but didnt suffer any penalty for breaking the law itself.