Monday morning musings for workplace watchers
Disaster Warning | Putting DOL on the Hook
Robert Iafolla: A U.S. appeals court in New Orleans will consider whether the Covid-19 pandemic qualifies as a natural disaster that exempts employers from the federal requirement they give workers advance notice before a mass layoff or plant closure.
A group of former workers for US Well Services, a Texas-based fracking outfit, is fighting to overturn a district court ruling that did just that, adjudging the pandemic to have been a natural disaster under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.
The case, which is ...
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