How did they get around excluding remote workers in CA from the 60-day notice period required under Cal-WARN?? Anyone else in this boat? Last service date of 9/17.
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Spoke to an employment lawyer about my overall situation and this avoidance of 60 day notice for remote workers in CA was what surprised them the most.
@bh You are probably harboring 50 H1-Bs at your place and getting a cut from their wages.
@bh LOL, no you are not. Remote essentially becomes not tied to any home office even if you assume to have a home office.
@bg Well, I'm remote and I'm covered under WARN in Washington, so pretty sure what you say is incorrect.
Remote workers are not eligible for any states warn.
California has their own version of the Federal WARN Act which has more stringent provisions than the Federal Act particularly around remote workers.
I was surprised when my status went from a job location to remote without my knowledge. I didn’t give them the chance to lay me off, I took the matter into my own hands and left on my terms. Remote worker equals no Warn.
Coz WARN applies when more than X number of employees are laid off from the same location, so it would apply if you have X+1 H1-B workers living and working from a greenhouse, like the couple in Monterey county housing illegal farm workers.
Sigh
Why does this keep having to be explained? WARN only applies when 50 or more employees in a single facility are laid off. There can be 1,000s of remote workers and WARN does not factor in at all.
California employees where notified today that their last day is November 13.
depending on the state if the total is under a certain amount they don’t have to do it is my understanding
You said the magic word, remote. That’s your answer.