#60daynotice

If your employer fails to report layoffs to the WARN system, you may have grounds to take legal action. The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act requires employers to provide 60 days' notice before mass layoffs or plant closures. If they do not comply, affected employees can seek compensation.

Steps to Take

1. Confirm Eligibility

• Ensure your employer has at least 100 full-time employees.
• Verify that the layoffs affect 50 or more employees at a single site within 30 days.

1. Gather Evidence

• Document the details of the layoffs, including dates, number of employees affected, and any communications from your employer.

1. Consult an Attorney

• Seek legal advice from an attorney experienced in employment law. They can help you understand your rights and the potential for a class action lawsuit.

1. File a Class Action Lawsuit

• If multiple employees are affected, you can join together to file a class action lawsuit. This can help share legal costs and strengthen your case.

Potential Compensation

If successful, you may be entitled to:

• Up to 60 days of back pay and benefits.
• Additional damages if the employer's actions were willful.

Reporting Violations

You can also report WARN Act violations to the U.S. Department of Labor. They may investigate and enforce compliance, which can support your case.

Taking these steps can help you navigate the legal process if your employer fails to report layoffs as required by the WARN Act.

Just notified today not really surprised. Over 55 in the US

Any insight on the impact for the next big yearly layoff that occurs every 2nd week of Jan.? I estimate 15% for 2026.

Title: Frito-Lay eliminates 500 jobs as it closes Orlando plants
Source: Orlando Sentinel
URL: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/05/frito-lay-eliminates-500-jobs-as-it-closes-orlando-plants/
Summary: Frito-Lay will shutter two Orlando facilities and cut about 500 jobs, including 454 positions at its Silver Star Road site, according to a letter to the Florida Department of Commerce. Roles span mechanics, packaging, and warehouse staff, with the company citing business needs for the closures.

Title: 'Difficult decision': Orlando Frito-Lay plant to close
Source: WESH 2
URL: https://www.wesh.com/article/orlando-frito-lay-plant-closes/69253930
Summary: PepsiCo Foods U.S. is closing manufacturing and warehouse operations at its Orlando Frito-Lay plant, resulting in nearly 500 layoffs. The company said the move was driven by business needs and promised pay, benefits, and transition support.

Title: Frito-Lay abruptly shutters Orlando plant, cutting 500 jobs
Source: Orlando Weekly
URL: https://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/frito-lay-abruptly-shutters-orlando-plant-cutting-500-jobs/
Summary: A WARN letter states 454 workers at 2800 Silver Star Road were terminated immediately and another 46 jobs at a Park Oaks Avenue warehouse will be cut in May 2026. Frito-Lay says affected employees will receive 60 days pay in lieu of notice plus transition assistance.

Title: Frito-Lay facilities close in Orlando; nearly 500 jobs lost ahead of holidays
Source: Yahoo News via WOFL
URL: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/frito-lay-facilities-close-orlando-150813803.html
Summary: PepsiCo is shutting a Frito-Lay manufacturing plant on Silver Star Road and a support warehouse on Park Oaks Avenue, eliminating 454 jobs now and 46 by May 9, 2026. The company says it will offer pay, benefits, and job placement help while working with state and local agencies.

Do we have enough 60+ people in Oxy that will be enough not to trigger an involuntary layoffs? I don’t know what percentage of people they are looking at reducing if it will come down to letting more people go in the coming months. What’s your take on this?

Palo Alto employee here. Will get notified on Dec and last day 60 days later. Question: What kind of continuing healthcare coverage does Broadcom offer during the severance period? Continuing the existing plan for a period of time?

And I assume after that, the option to purchase Cobra coverage?

Any word on if, when and where?

The WARN act requires companies with over 100 full-time employees to give workers 60 days notice of layoffs. Is anyone filing an EEOC claim?

Confirmed for FIN

• The news is going out Monday.
• Approx 400 employees will be let go across the org.
• No specific business lines targeted. Enterprise wide.
• Primarily people in management roles will be let go.

Greystone Logistics has laid off 85 employees at its Bettendorf manufacturing plant, according to the Iowa Workforce Development Office.

The layoffs took place on Wednesday, Oct. 29.

https://www.wqad.com/article/news/local/85-employees-laid-off-greystone-logistics-bettendorf-plant-state-officials-say/526-a4558248-039a-48e2-9244-39cefb6abef8

Wellmed - Optum / North Texas Team. 60 people let go at once!

If you start a new job before the 60 days are up, you won’t receive severance pay.If you get a new job but delay your start date until after 60 days, you’ll still get your severance check.This depends on the layoff terms and when you sign the severance agreement.People laid off earlier this year may have different terms.Once your contract is signed and the revocation period ends, you’re free to start a new job.

How do layoffs work with WARN? If WARN requirement is 60 or 90 days depending on the state, is that your severance? For someone that's been here for 1 or 2 years, would severance get bumped up to the WARN requirement instead of the 2 or 4 weeks? Thank you.

Wanted to ensure everyone knows that the 60 days that is provided is not out of generosity of target. Its a way they are actually getting around notifying the minnesota government of the mass layoffs. Instead of notifying the government first 60 days in advance of a planned layoff, its notifying employees and at the same time telling the government. Look up the minnesota warn act.

Just piling onto the absolute abysmal job target is doing to communicate.

Are y'all ready for the layoffs? Only 1 week to conclude FY25. It also means we have only 1 week before getting kicked out.

Does anyone have direct experience going from a long term disability leave of absence while their site or coworkers were laid off, and were returned to work after the layoff? I am currently on LTD and am wondering what the process will be when my doctor returns me to work. Will I get a 60 day non working notice or go directly to being laid off? The employee handbook doesn't cover this and I will be asking my manager, just wondering if anyone has already gone through this with HR.

Thanks in advance.

Paying for 60 days instead of giving 60 days’ advance written notice

Employers must provide at least 60 days’ written notice; payment in a 60 day period after the fact does not substitute for notice.

Source: 29 U.S.C. § 2102(a); 20 C.F.R. § 639.2; DOL elaws Advisor

Since I'm still technically an employee during the 60 day period following the notice of displacement (October), I take it I wait to apply after the 60th day (in December)?

When I'm displaced, will I still get access to Develop You and Pluralsight resources to complete courses for my development?

I work in IT as a software dev and wonder if I should update my resume to list SAFe Agile experience at USAA? Will future employers think I'm just as useless as the Release Train Engineers, Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters and the rest of the bureaucratic dead weight floating around USAA?

Large cardboard boxes and some carts showed up this week at the Barnhart Call Center location in Hillsboro, OR. They have signs posted over the boxes designating each for e-waste, company equipment, donations of personal items, Wellsware, etc. They are set up in multiple hallways. This leads me to some questions:

1 - How long do we have until our 60-days notice now that these boxes have shown up? In that past when we had a remodel or reorganization of seating plan they showed up over a month beforehand.

2 - What do I do with the 2 company provided monitors I have at home? I take public transit to get to the office most of the time and taking them with me to the office for turn-in would be nearly impossible. I have to walk over a mile from the station to the office and there's no way I'm carrying them that distance.

3 - Do I have to ship my laptop back? Is there a way I can hand it over in-office?

4 - Should I start bringing my personal items from my cubicle home now? Will they ship those to us? If I get 60 days non-working notice will I still have access to the building to retrieve them? In the past when they terminated someone, 2 people were assigned to box up the personal items and they were shipped to them.

Thank you all in advance for sharing your advice and experiences

Say you are laid off on a Tuesday after payday. Exactly 61 days later is your work anniversary.

Will you get credit for that extra year? Or does that work anniversary fall outside the notice period?

More simply put does the notice period start the day you are told? Or the next day?

The Mercury News reported two WARN act filings by Oracle - disclosed on August 13, filed again on August 14.

"Oracle America is cutting 101 positions in Santa Clara, the company revealed in a WARN notice filed with the EDD on Aug. 14. These staffing reductions come on the heels of a disclosure by Oracle on Aug. 13 that it had decided to cut 188 jobs, consisting of a loss of 143 positions in Redwood City and 45 in Pleasanton."

Does this mean that the disclosure layoffs (Aug 13) already happened but the filed (Aug 14) layoffs have up to 60 days to execute?

When does a company need to file a WARN notice?

What a great day. I received the call this AM. I heard in my managers voice uncertainty about their own future. What a mess, they have a whole heck of a lot of stuff they need to unwind to get themselves off the firing line. For those who did not want to speak up for me that is OK, I forgive you. I do not feel bad for standing up for myself when I did. Nobody slots me into incorrect alignments and gets away with it. At this point, I appreciate the paid 60 days PTO and severance. I am going to use this as an opportunity to reset my mental health and find a better position for the remainder of my career. Feel free to position these changes as (right-sizing all you want). I have watched for years as you've hired your friends and diversity hires. Thank God those days are over for me. I should have never put up with it in the first place, but with COVID and forced RTO the market contracted making a move a little more elusive than I had hoped. Again! Thank you all very much. This is a weight off my shoulders.

Hey all, I was among the 21 last week. I am so sad. HR told us we were going to be supported during our 60 day job hunt but they were no where to be found. I'm certain none of us had a chance to find a new role at Target. My team is talented, respected, and qualified for a lot of the open roles yet none of us could land anything. We HUSTLED in the 60 days. I personally applied to 16 different internal roles my skills would have made sense for and I got one interview which was amazing but I got rejected. Same story with 4 others on my team. I am convinced we never had a chance and it pi---s me off they led us on. Stupid i know but I didn't apply externally at all because I wanted to stay so badly. Lesson learned. 18 years with the company and no thank yous or I'm sorry from leadership. It stings but now I know how it is. I was so naive having grown up there.