Employment lawyer shares best practices for job cuts ahead of recession
Seemingly every week since the summer, a high-profile employer has been reducing headcount ahead of an anticipated recession.
Amazon and Meta (parent company of Facebook) have both conducted the largest round of layoffs in their respective histories, with the former even sending out “voluntary severance” offers to employees in HR and employee services departments, CNBC reported. Companies throughout California, especially in Silicon Valley, have been cutting jobs at a rapid pace: Salesforce, Wells Fargo, Lyft, Gap, Warner Bros. Discovery, Snap, Patreon, Twilio and many more.
Then, you have the Twitter fiasco, in which new owner Elon Musk has sliced the workforce in half and given remaining employees an ultimatum to resign or commit to “long hours,” CNBC reported.
While termination is inevitable in business, there are legal dangers associated with mass layoffs, especially if they’re conducted too quickly, according to employment lawyer Lee Paris, an associate of Miami-based law firm Davis Goldman.
“In these situations, people leave with a bad taste, which inevitably leads to litigation,” Paris told HRD. “Sometimes, employers are trying to achieve a goal, but they don’t realize they may be adversely impacting a certain class of people. For example, a tech company may lay off older worker because they’re more expensive, and all of a sudden, the company may receive a retaliation claim from a class action...
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