Employees of Paramount Global and CBS Interactive have filed a lawsuit against their employers for allegedly violating the New York Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act. Notably, some of the affected workers were located in other states, working remotely for their jobs. The question now lies before the court whether the state WARN Act applies to these remote workers.
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The New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL) has issued final updated regulations on the implementation of the state’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act. These updated regulations are meant to help bring the WARN Act up to modern standards, as laid out in the update to the Act that was originally passed in 2021. This is especially important given the substantial changes that have occurred in the workforce over the past few years.
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A federal court has ruled that people who work from home can sue their employer under the WARN Act for failure to notify them of a mass layoff. This ruling, made by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, is a potential advance for remote employees who suddenly find themselves laid off by employers. For employers, however, it is a warning sign that moving employees to a remote work schedule does not free them from their legal obligations to those employees.
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