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One laid-off Pluralsight employee said she got the news in the middle of a road trip with her family; another said she had just given birth.
“Nothing says, ‘Good morning,’” said a third employee, who also posted on LinkedIn, “like a surprise email from the CEO and a last minute Zoom Meeting saying you’ve ... ‘been impacted.’”
In contrast, more than 200 SkyWest Airlines employees working in Salt Lake City already know they will be let go in September.
The difference? SkyWest Airlines filed a WARN notice with employees and the state of Utah on July 11.
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notice (WARN) Act is supposed to protect employees from sudden mass layoffs. It requires employers with 100 or more full-time employees to provide at least 60 days written notice if their worksite is closing or if a mass layoff is coming.
But there are exceptions. And the rule’s parameters leave room for legal loopholes.
“Plenty of people are still trying to avoid the WARN Act,” said Stuart Miller, partner at Lankenau & Miller LLP in New York.
Miller’s law firm specializes litigating WARN Act violations. It’s representing Utahn Michael Gustafson, who hopes to lead a class-action lawsuit on behalf of hundreds of employees laid off in June from MarketStar, an international marketing business with its headquarters in Ogden.
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