WARN Act doesn’t require double payment of wages

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Abstract: This article discusses laid-off employees’ claims that their ex-employer owed them wages under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act even though they had begun to work for a successor company. The Fourth Circuit rejected their claim that they had suffered an employment loss, defined as “an employment termination other than a discharge for cause, voluntary departure, or retirement,” on the day the plant shut down. WARN requires employers to provide 60 days’ notice of the date of employment loss resulting from a shutdown, not from the date of the shutdown itself. Long v. Dunlop Sports Group Americas