Insights

In the July, 1992 issue of this Newsletter, we reported that even unintentional violations of the federal plant-closing law – the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (“WARN”) – can result...

The New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department, recently sustained a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board (the “Appeal Board”) which denied unemployment benefits to a...

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana recently found that notices sent to employees prior to a mass layoff were technically defective under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1989...

It has been over three years since the California Supreme Court decided Foley v. Interactive Data Corp., 47 Cal.3d 654, 254 Cal. Rptr. 211 (1988), in which the Court limited the scope of the law of wrongful discharge. The...