How does WARN work? I can see there’s no national or state wide WARN alerts, but Google says it’s required before the first layoff can happen. Does that mean that the layoffs won’t be as bad as we think because they’d be breaking the law if they hit the WARN threshold (which would happen with people’s 10% of company guess)
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Oh ok I was going off of this https://layoffdata.com/company/
But that makes sense. I wonder why they are staggering it then instead of just telling everyone (and making the WARN) Before 10/31
It means they have to give 60 days notice, so if they want the job cuts by 12/31, they need to file WARN before end of October.
There is really no national database for WARN. Comcast would need to file, but individual states can (but are not required to) make it public, For example, New Hampshire, where the NE Division was located, doesn't publish the information, where as Massachusetts does. Massachusetts used to let you see a listing of positions being eliminated, but now even that is hidden from view.
I think the way they layoff but make the last day more than a month or two out gets them out of needing to give WARN act notice.
I've heard things in past layoffs about the advance notice before termination date being the same as the WARN timeline, to get around that, but I'm not sure how true that is.
It's also possible that with the actual termination/layoff date (at least for the confirmed HR/L&D folks) being 12/31 that they won't file it until December anyway, once everyone already knows.