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Why didn’t employees get more notice? Why wasn’t WARN Act triggered?



Company shutdown != layoff.


Yes it does though? The legal entity of the company still exists, it’s just no longer conducting business or paying employees. Thats a mass layoff.

The California version of the WARN Act explicitly covers terminating business operations.


> A "faltering company" is not required to give notice of a layoff or plant closing when, before the plant closing, it is actively seeking capital or business, which if obtained would avoid or postpone the layoff or clo- sure, and if it reasonably believes that advance notice would hurt its ability to find the capital or business it needs to continue operating

https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ETA/Layoff/pdfs/Worke...


Okay, sue them.


If the company is actually shutting down (is it?) then no, the legal entity will not exist for much longer.




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