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Employee Rights Blog
Senior Employee Layoffs in Toronto: How Age and Long Service Affect Severance
By Leo
Senior employees often receive termination packages built around Ontario’s statutory minimums. Those amounts may be only the starting point. An employee dismissed without cause may also have common law reasonable…
Employee Rights Blog
Layoff vs. Termination in Ontario: What Employees Need to Know
By Leo
Employers often use “layoff,” “restructuring,” “position elimination” and “termination” interchangeably. Ontario law does not. A temporary layoff can leave the employment relationship legally continuing for Employment Standards Act, 2000 (ESA) purposes, while…
Varnum LLP
Key WARN Act Compliance Takeaways for Employers
By Varnum
The federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act requires certain employers to provide advance notice before plant closings, mass layoffs, and other qualifying workforce reductions. Determining whether the law…
WSNYC Blog: The Latest in Employment Law
New York Severance Agreement Necessities: A Guide for What Employees in New York Should Look For
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Employee Rights Blog
Layoff Without Severance: Is It Legal in Ontario?
A layoff without severance can be lawful in some situations. In many others, it is a termination or constructive dismissal dressed up as a layoff. In Ontario, the result depends on the…
Labor and Employment Compliance Blog
Nebraska Enacted Its Own WARN Act: What Employers Need to Know
By Nicole Low
Nebraska joined the growing number of states adopting “mini-WARN” laws that impose layoff notice requirements beyond those of the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (“Federal WARN”). Effective July…
ComplexDiscovery
The fear before the layoff: what the research says about job change, and what it costs
By Rob Robinson
Editor’s Note: Layoff anxiety now reaches a majority of American workers, yet the federal data on people who lost long-held jobs is more mixed than the mood. The Bureau of…
Employee Rights Blog
Laid Off While on Medical Leave: Is It Legal in Ontario?
Being told your job is ending while you are on medical leave can feel deeply unfair. It also raises an important legal question: was the decision genuinely unrelated to your…
Legal IT Insider
K&L Gates cuts circa 10% of its business services workforce
By Caroline Hill - Editor-in-Chief
K&L Gates has launched a significant round of redundancies targeting its “allied professional” workforce, cutting roughly 10% of its global business support staff.First picked up by Above the Law in…
Davis+Gilbert PERKS
AI-Driven Layoff Decisions Face Legal Scrutiny in New Lawsuit
Employers: A Cautionary Tale about Using AI Tools in Decision-making Twenty-six current and former employees have sued a major technology company in California federal court, alleging it used biased artificial…