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In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, many employers have been forced to conduct staff layoffs as businesses were closed in compliance with shelter-in-place orders...

COVID-19 has, among other things, had an impact on executive compensation and employee benefits, and given rise to a number of new issues and considerations.

On February 19th and 26th, 2021, Illinois legislatures introduced new bills that, if passed, would get rid of at-will employment, only allowing employers to terminate ...

As we near the end of another year of COVID-19 and face yet more surges in cases, governments are working to adapt in order to keep employees safe.

Q: Are California employers required to rehire employees they laid off for reasons related to the COVID-19 pandemic?...

There was lots of scuttlebutt in Washington, D.C., this week about a subsequent stimulus package, but nothing to show for it. Senate Republicans are reportedly poised to introduce a new scaled...

Further to the HM Treasury's announcement at the end of October that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, which was originally due to end on 31 October 2020, ...

On April 16, 2021, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 93 into law. The law requires employers to offer open job positions to employees who were previously laid off...

Almost three years after signing into law legislation significantly amending the state's mini-WARN Act (officially known as the "Millville Dallas Airmotive...

In Morton v. Vanderbilt Univ., 2016 WL 52439 (6th Cir. Jan. 5, 2016), the Sixth Circuit recently held that, for purposes of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act...

Furloughs. Layoffs. Loss of work visas. The state of employment in the U.S. is in flux due to the coronavirus, and employers and employees are left to figure out how to best deal with the changing...

In 2011, in response to the Great Recession, Pennsylvania joined a handful of states in enacting work sharing legislation (also known as short-time compensation).

On May 15, 2023, the Second Circuit vacated the entry of summary judgment on Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act and New York Labor Law § 860 et seq.

A California Court of Appeals has held that temporary furloughs trigger notice obligations under the California Workers Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (CA-WARN).

Remote work has exploded since the COVID-19 pandemic began, with some employers hiring employees to work remotely anywhere in the United States. With the recent economic downturn, layoffs are beginning to occur,...

The Netherlands is one of the few places in the world where dismissing an employee requires prior authorization from the government (unless it is done summarily for urgent cause).

The New Jersey Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development has issued a Notification Form that employers are to use when giving advance notice of a mass layoff or shutdown of operations under the recently enacted New Jersey mini-WARN statute (officially known as the Millville Dallas Airmotive Plant Job Loss Notification Act).