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Layoff
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Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives
The Eleventh Circuit Could Tackle Whether COVID-19 is a Disaster for WARN Purposes with Companies Facing Continued Layoffs
By Veronica A. Torrejón, Christopher M. Pardo, Ryan A. Glasgow
While COVID-19 may have hit the business community like a hurricane, whether the pandemic, in fact, qualifies for a natural disaster exception under the federal law requiring businesses to warn…
Employee Rights Blog
IDEL – Extended Layoffs & Wrongful Dismissal
The Ontario government stretched IDEL to July 3, 2021, leaving many employees reeling about extended layoffs. However, the law still protects employees in many ways. Here's how. The post IDEL…
Achkar Law Blog
The Value of an Enforceable Employment Agreement
Now more than ever, businesses who hired their employees without an enforceable employment agreement are realizing the extent of potential consequences. At times, employers are not aware that their employment…
China Law Insight
疫情之下，企业裁员新风向
By King & Wood
年初爆发的新冠肺炎疫情引发了国内外企业的“裁员潮”。随着疫情在全球的持续蔓延，尽管国内疫情防控取得积极成效，部分行业的企业仍然面临着较大的生产经营压力，不得不考虑进行裁员。面对疫情对劳动关系领域带来的新挑战，自今年3月以来，全国各地裁审机构接连出台了疫情防控期间劳动争议案件处理的相关指引，其中涉及企业受疫情影响与员工解除劳动关系这一类劳动争议案件的审理原则，释放出相关劳动争议裁审尺度的新信号。
Global Workplace Insider
Long-awaited relief for federally regulated employers: Layoff periods extended further
To give federally regulated employers more time to recall employees due to the COVID-19 pandemic, certain layoff periods under the Canada Labour Standards Regulations have (again) been temporarily extended as…
Ride the Lightning
Layoffs at Kirkland & Ellis, the World’s Wealthiest Law Firm
Above the Law posted on October 26 that Kirkland & Ellis has quietly been conducting layoffs. Even for a firm with more than 1,000 partners, Kirkland has lost an unusually…
California Workplace Law Blog
Statewide Right of Recall is Vetoed But Local Ordinances Persist
By Stephanie T. Yang, Yuki Cruse
As California employers recover from the whirlwind of the 2020 Legislative Session, one bright spot is the Governor’s veto of Assembly Bill 3216, which would have established statewide recall rights…
Employment & Human Rights Law in Canada
Recalling Employees to Work: Considerations for Employers
By Jeff Tinker
[caption id="attachment_9542" align="alignright" width="300"] Photo by Matthew Henry on Unsplash[/caption] Employers are encountering issues as they ask their employees to come back to work. We will take a look at…
Cruise Law News
Carnival Cruise Line Terminates Thousands of Crew Members and Senior Shipboard Officers
By Jim Walker
Carnival Cruise Line is taking steps to terminate and/or not renew the contracts of employment of several thousands of officers and crew members throughout its fleet, according to several crew…
China Law Blog
China Employee Layoff Risks
By Grace Yang
China is not an employment-at-will jurisdiction and terminating China employees is nearly always difficult. To make things even more challenging, many foreign companies doing business in China manage their China…