Google “WARN ACT (state name)
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act helps ensure advance notice in cases of qualified plant closings and mass layoffs. The U.S. Department of Labor has compliance assistance materials to help workers and employers understand their rights and responsibilities under the provisions of WARN.
But now they are usually giving 30 days and some of the numbers posted for other companies are ridiculously low.
I’ve never seen VZ on there for any state and I don’t know how they are getting away with it
Most RIFS in recent history are 30 day notice, but they still don't require WARN notification.
Look up warn and verizon. You will see very few like one over a decade ago when they closed a building and got rid of nearly everyone there. The only warning you will get is a call with your manager and a severance agreement/package.
WARN act only applies to single-site locations, and only under certain conditions:
Permanent closing of an employment facility with 50 or more employees OR
a reduction of at least 50 employees that makes up at least 33% of the work force at a single location OR a reduction of at least 500 or more employees at a single location.
So basically, the WARN act would likely never apply to a national employer doing RIF's across the whole country, since this could be thousands of employees distributed across hundreds of locations, meaning on a per-site location, the counts of employees impacted are likely never going to trigger the WARN act. The warn act says if you RIF 300 employees out of a 1000 employee location, no notice needed. It's less than 33% and fewer than 500 employees.
WARN act is worthless. Verlieson gets around the WARN act by announcing a layoff with 60 days until off payroll. So nothing shows up on WARN until after the announcement.