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TRU Staffing Partners, Inc.

Eye on Privacy August Shows Slow Full-Time Hiring Speed, Abundant Contractor Opportunities

On August’s Eye on Privacy webinar, TRU Staffing Partners’ Founder and CEO Jared Coseglia was joined by guest host Robin Andruss, Chief Privacy Officer of Skyflow....more

Fisher Phillips

Can You Lay Off Remote Workers First? 4 Key Considerations for Employers Facing RIFs

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Here’s the scenario: You were just told that your company needs to reduce its workforce by 10%, and it’s your job to put together an action plan for this grim assignment. But there’s a catch. The leadership team wants you to...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

Is Remote Work ‘Protected’?

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We’ve been discussing the various implications of the current ‘return to work’ push. Another implication is layoff decisions and the potential for disparate impact on remote workers, who tend to disproportionally be women and...more

Mintz

The Dark Side of Your Room: the Drawbacks of Fully-Remote Work

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With many companies cutting back on pandemic-era remote work policies, opting for a hybrid model, or even requiring employees to be physically present five days per week, some employers have found it difficult to entice...more

Maynard Nexsen

Compliance with WARN for Remote Workers

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Assignment of remote workers under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) is a complex and unsettled issue, which could be subject to legal challenge. WARN requires employers to provide written notice at...more

Holland & Hart - Employers' Lawyers

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

Ward and Smith, P.A.

Plaintiffs Attorneys on What Employers Should Know Today

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In a discussion led by employment law attorney Will Oden, two experienced North Carolina employment attorneys who represent employees shared insights on their respective practices representing employees, and best practices...more

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Here Are the Top 10 New Laws Coming Soon to California Workplaces and 5 Key Bills the Governor Surprisingly Vetoed

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California employers know that the new year inevitably brings new workplace laws that are finalized at the end of the state’s legislative session in the fall. This year, state lawmakers considered over 2,700 bills – the most...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Amendments to New York WARN Act Now in Effect

Amendments to the New York State Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (NY WARN Act) that the New York State Department of Labor (NY DOL) adopted in June 2023 are now in effect. Among other things, the amended...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

HR Trends for 2023 and Beyond

The top 5 HR trends shaping the future of work. As we step into 2023, HR leaders are faced with the challenge of staying ahead of the curve in an ever-evolving workforce landscape. In the past 3 years, we’ve navigated a...more

Mintz

The Digital Dismissal Dilemma

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The recent New York Times piece about the chaos arising from terminating remote workers highlights the difficulties employers face when laying off a distributed workforce of digital workers. Few employers are able to deliver...more

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News of Recent Layoffs Prompts a Review of the WARN Act

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WARN Act compliance is evergreen. Recent tech layoffs provide an important reminder of WARN’s importance for all employers contemplating one. The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (“WARN”) is a federal law...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Managing Legal and Reputational Risks When Right-Sizing Your Workforce

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Reductions in force can help lower your company’s operating expenses, but if not undertaken with empathy, they might have the opposite effect. The “Great Resignation” has left a general scarcity of employees in the labor...more

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Employers Beware: Risks with Reductions in Force Involving a Remote Workforce

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​​​​​​​Employers considering a reduction in force involving remote workers may be subject to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (the “WARN Act”) (29 U.S.C. §2100 et. seq.) and corresponding state...more

Venable LLP

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

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The Hazards of Remote Employee Layoffs: Wage and Hour Issues, Severance Agreements, and Unemployment Claims

Remote work has exploded since the COVID-19 pandemic began, with some employers hiring employees to work remotely anywhere in the United States. With the recent economic downturn, layoffs are beginning to occur, and for the...more

Sherman & Howard L.L.C.

Remote Employees May Bring Class Action for WARN Act Claim

In Piron et al. v. General Dynamic Information Technology, Inc., Case 3:19-cv-00709-REP, the United Stated District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, granted class certification for a Worker Adjustment and...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

Littler

Littler 2021 European Employer Survey Report - November 2021

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Executive Summary - Despite all that remains uncertain for European employers – involving the trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic, new working models or any number of other emergent workforce issues – one area has come...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

Pullman & Comley - Labor, Employment and...

Latest Developments from the Connecticut General Assembly: The Labor and Public Employees Committee Has Spoken (Part One-COVID-19...

Following its initial action; https://workingtogether.pullcomblog.com/archives/latest-developments-from-the-connecticut-general-assembly-the-labor-and-public-employees-committee-begins-to-speak-3/; the General Assembly’s...more

DirectEmployers Association

OFCCP Week In Review: March 2021 #3

The DE OFCCP Week in Review (WIR) is a simple, fast and direct summary of relevant happenings in the OFCCP regulatory environment, authored by experts John C. Fox, Candee Chambers and Jennifer Polcer. In today’s edition, they...more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

COVID Infections May Be Down But COVID Lawsuits Are Up: What Employers Should Consider

It comes as no surprise that employee claims against employers are on the rise. In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a drastic decline in newly filed employment-related lawsuits. The decline was likely the...more

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Dear Littler: How do we Determine Where Remote Employees “Work” for WARN Act Purposes?

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Dear Littler: We are planning a layoff that will involve many of our employees who are working remotely during the pandemic.  How do we decide who works at a particular location for WARN counting purposes?...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Here We Go Again: California Employers Face Third Round Of Stay-At-Home Orders

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On December 3, 2020, the state issued a new regional stay-at-home order which requires additional industries to close or scale back operations based on intensive care unit (ICU) capacity in the region. The order separates the...more

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