Mass layoffs at Twitter and other companies could lead to a surge in lawsuits under the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act. Complaints alleging WARN Act violations have risen since Q1 2022 after cooling for the better part of 2021, according to a Bloomberg Law analysis of federal district court dockets.
Twitter faced two class WARN Act complaints in Q4 2022 alone after announcing a bout of layoffs in November, and two more were filed against the tech giant just last month.
Other companies haven’t been immune from WARN claims—new filings rose for most of 2022. ...
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