The WARN Act requires large employers to give 60 days’ notice before laying off a large portion of their workforce.
Soon after billionaire Elon Musk finalized his purchase of Twitter, media reports said Twitter planned to lay off 3,700 employees, equivalent to half of its 7,400 employee workforce nationwide. On Nov. 3, five former Twitter employees filed a class-action lawsuit against the company alleging it had violated state and federal labor law.
Viral threads on Twitter and Reddit specifically cited the WARN Act, and claimed that the ongoing layoffs violate the law’s requirement that large companies give employees 60 days’ notice before mass layoffs.
While courts will determine if Twitter violated labor laws as the suit alleges, many commenters on the various threads said they weren’t given such notices before being laid-off in their own previous jobs, and therefore doubted such a federal law exists.
Does federal law require large companies like Twitter to give employees 60 days’ notice before mass layoffs?
Yes, federal law requires large companies like Twitter to give 60 days’ notice before mass layoffs.
Both the federal government and the state of California have their own version of what’s called the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, a law that requires certain employers to give employees notice before mass layoffs or plant closings.
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