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One thing has be striking me as odd about all these layoffs and such. I've been "displaced" 3 times and each time a 60 day notice period was required.

Posted by Cuzzin Todd (aka cuzzintodd) Mar 27 '20, 16:03

Now, it could be non-working (as in your last day is today but you'll be paid for 60 additional days). I unfortunately never got to experience a non-working notice period in my 3 experiences.

This wouldn't be all employees, but should cover employees working for larger companies, such as the airlines, national chains, Sea World below, etc.

But it appears there's probably a couple loopholes here, most specifically "unforeseeable business circumstances" or "natural disaster" which is why this isn't a thing right now I guess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraining_Notification_Act_of_1988 (en.wikipedia.org)

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Another POV: I worked in dotcoms for years. Not only was there no notice, no severance. Sometimes folks were "retroactively" fired, meaning, you ain't -- (edited) - loosilu Mar 27, 16:14 1
- There are issues depending on the size of the company. The WARN act does require notice and the failure to give it requires the company to pay for - pmb Mar 27, 16:24

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One thing has be striking me as odd about all these layoffs and such. I've been "displaced" 3 times and each time a 60 day notice period was required.

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