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Delaware Bankruptcy Update
Decision in Tweeter Opco, LLC., Holds Non-Debtor Controlling Company Liable for Debtor’s Violation of the WARN Act
Summary In a 24 page decision signed July 8, 2011, Judge Walrath of the Delaware Bankruptcy Court granted a motion to for summary judgment, holding a non-debtor defendant liable with…
Employment Law Matters
Firing replacement workers to allow striking employees to return is not a “mass layoff” under WARN Act.
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act requires a 60-day notice to employees before a “mass layoff” can take place. A mass layoff is a reduction in force which…
Bankruptcy Litigation Blog 2.0
Bankruptcy Tweets for April 2011 – Part II
More reported bankruptcy decisions now than any time ever. 30-70 decisions a day being reported compared to 10-25 in past years, with probably double or triple the number of commercial…
California Employment Law Update
March 2011 California Employment Law Notes
We invite you to review our newly posted March 2011 California Employment Law Notes -- a comprehensive review of the latest and most significant developments in California employment law. The…
California Employment Law Update
Employees Who Quit Company That Was Closing Suffered “Employment Loss” Under WARN Act
By Tony Oncidi
Collins v. Gee West Seattle LLC, 631 F.3d 1001 (9th Cir. 2011) On September 26, 2007, Gee West informed its 150 employees that although it was actively pursuing the sale…
Sixth Circuit Appellate Blog
Sixth Circuit Determines that Warn Act Provides No Right to Jury Trial
By Bruce Khula
Under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988 (“WARN Act”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 2101-2109, an employer of 100 or more full-time employees is forbidden from “order[ing] a plant…
Employment Law Matters
Employees who stop coming to work because business is closing are entitled to 60-day notice under the WARN Act.
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act states that an employer cannot order a plant closing or mass layoff that will affect 50 or more employees without a 60-day…
Labor & Employment Law Blog
Ninth Circuit Rules That An Employee Who Quits Because The Business Is Closing Has Not “Voluntarily Departed” Under the WARN Act
On January 21, 2011, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Collins v. Gee West Seattle LLC held that when an employee voluntarily leaves because the company is closing, the…
World of Employment
Ninth Circuit Clarifies Meaning of “Voluntary Departure” Under WARN Act
By Marc Alifanz
In Collins v. Gee West Seattle, LLC, a three member Ninth Circuit panel held 2-1 that employees who receive notice of a plant closing, but stop returning to work before the…
Labor Law Prof Blog
RFP Warns Institute
Ariana Levinson (Louisville) has been running the Warns Institute for the last couple of years now. It's one of the better labor/employment conferences in the country for attracting both academics…