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[Virtual Event] 40th Annual Employment Law Update - October 24th, 9:00 am - 4:30 pm ET

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Sometimes it seems employers are awash with new employment laws and regulations that require effective HR help to navigate. This year’s 40th ELU is designed to update employers on developments like the new proposed EEOC...more

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[Event] 40th Annual Employment Law Update - July 16th, Hampton, VA

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Sometimes it seems employers are awash with new employment laws and regulations that require effective HR help to navigate. This year’s 40th ELU is designed to update employers on developments like the new proposed EEOC...more

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Remote Work and Mass Layoffs: A Closer Look at the WARN Act

With the remote work model becoming increasingly prevalent and technology continuing to reshape the way people work, certain employment laws struggle to keep up with the evolving realities of the modern workforce....more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Five Types of Class Action Risks Following a Layoff

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Lately it seems like you can’t go a day without seeing news of another round of layoffs affecting workers and companies across the U.S. As companies seek to cut costs, however, they should be wary of the legal risks that come...more

Fisher Phillips

Immigration Update: Processing Delays and Tech Layoffs Add Complications for Employers

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Employers know that U.S. immigration laws are complex, and the Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) long processing delays – coupled with recent layoffs in the tech industry – have further complicated matters by adding new fact...more

Nilan Johnson Lewis PA

Let’s Be Real: Managing Immigration Sponsorship Requirements During Company Layoffs

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Over the course of the past few months, several major tech companies in the United States have announced large-scale layoffs. Major companies announcing such layoffs include Meta (formerly Facebook), Amazon, HP, Google, and...more

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WARN-ing Bells Are Ringing: WARN Act Considerations in the Remote Work Era as Recession Threatens

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​​​​​​​Another period of financial uncertainty is looming. Considering recent mass layoffs in the tech industry, rising inflation, and other economic challenges that are projected to surface during the coming months, savvy...more

Jones Day

Liquidating Chapter 11 Debtor Excused from Providing WARN Act Notification of Employee Layoffs Due to Pandemic Natural Disaster

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Large employers intending to lay off a significant number of their employees are required by the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988 (the "WARN Act") to give the targeted employees 60 days' advance...more

Mintz - Employment Viewpoints

News of Recent Layoffs Prompts a Review of the WARN Act: What’s Changed Since 2020?

For the first time since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, employers are implementing a new wave of layoffs, particularly in the tech world, and it is anticipated that there are more to come as recession worries loom. ...more

Perkins Coie

Florida Court Refuses to Dismiss COVID-19-Related WARN Case Based on Natural Disaster Exception

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A judge for the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, on March 17, 2022, denied defendant Scribe Opco, Inc.’s motion to dismiss a class action alleging violations of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Fourth Circuit Dismisses Novel Single-Employer Independent Contractor WARN Claim

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In Pennington v. Fluor Corp., Nos. 21-1141, 21-1143, 2021 U.S. App. LEXIS 35307 (4th Cir. Nov. 30, 2021), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently dismissed a federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining...more

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Can Discharging Remote Workers Trigger the WARN Act at a ‘Single Site of Employment’?

To say that COVID-19 has presented numerous challenges to employers would certainly be an understatement. One of the changes and challenges that has entered the workforce is the proliferation of work-from-home arrangements. ...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

New California Law Requires Employers to Offer Jobs to Previously Laid-Off Employees

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On April 16, 2021, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 93 into law. The law requires employers to offer open job positions to employees who were previously laid off due to COVID-19-related reasons and adds records...more

Fisher Phillips

April 2021: The Top 16 Labor And Employment Law Stories

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson PLLC

EMPLOYMENT LAW ALERT: ARPA Updates To COBRA

On March 12, 2021, President Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). Importantly for employers, under the ARPA, any employee who is eligible for continuation of health insurance benefits pursuant to the...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

COVID-19 Pandemic New Year: What Employers Should Know

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The country begins the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic with optimism because of three Emergency Use Authorization vaccines and President Joe Biden’s direction that all states make all adults eligible for vaccination by...more

Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.

What’s Happening: FFCRA, PRO Act, COBRA Subsidies, Vaccinations And More!

The Biden Administration has directed a number of changes that impact employers under Administrative Agency action as well as the passage of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). We are highlighting a few of those here to...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

New DOL Guidance Expanding Eligibility For Unemployment Insurance To Three Categories Of Workers

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The Department of Labor (DOL) has issued guidance to state unemployment insurance agencies that expands eligibility for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA). PUA is a federally funded unemployment expansion that was...more

Roetzel & Andress

Department Of Labor Will Provide Additional Benefits For Those Who Refuse ‘Unsafe’ Work

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On February 25, 2021, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued guidance in the form of a Program Letter based upon President Biden’s recent directive to ensure unemployment benefits are available to people who refuse to work...more

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URGENT: Workers Can Refuse Work And Receive Unemployment Benefits Due To COVID-19

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On February 25, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced three new categories of individuals eligible to collect federally-funded unemployment benefits as the COVID-19 Pandemic continues. They are: •Individuals...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

COVID Quiz 2021!

Vaccines, unemployment, and more! I had a COVID return-to-work quiz back in May, but a lot has changed since then, so I thought it might be fun to do an updated version. So . . . How much do you know about COVID in the...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Class Action Trends Report Winter 2021

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Last year presented many challenges, and 2021 offers a fresh start. In this issue of the Class Actions Trends Report we review the most significant developments of 2020 and take a look forward to what a new year and a new...more

McAfee & Taft

COVID-19 and WARNings to employees about layoffs and closures

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In 2020, companies nationwide claimed that the global pandemic excused them from giving notice to employees of layoffs under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN). WARN requires employers of a...more

Saul Ewing LLP

Federal Court Sheds Light on “Unforeseeable Business Circumstances” Exception to WARN Act Notice Requirements

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A recent decision by a federal court in Florida could invite protracted litigation for large employers who engaged in mass layoffs after the COVID-19 pandemic arrived, if those employers did not provide 60 days’ notice under...more

WilmerHale

Weekly COVID-19 Oversight & Enforcement Report - October 2020 #3

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The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis released a staff report on the Payroll Support Program, which Congress created to “preserve aviation jobs” by providing payroll assistance to companies in exchange for keeping...more

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