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Severance Agreements

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Are Workforce Reductions Coming to the Private Sector? And, if so, How Should Companies Handle Them?

Foley & Lardner LLP on 3/11/2025

Massive federal workforce reductions (once a rare event) have been featured prominently in the news lately, along with reports of criticism about the way they are occurring. Will private companies follow suit? Some economic...more

Laid-Off Workers Gain Influence on Social Media, Raising Concerns for Employers

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 8/29/2024

Waves of mass layoffs during the past two years have generated a new trend: layoff influencers who use social media to vent feelings, get assistance with a job search, and find community with other laid-off workers. This...more

Reductions in Force: Legal Do’s and Don’ts

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 12/15/2022

Reductions in force (RIFs) are making headlines as companies trim their worker ranks in the face of a weakening economy. Employers must decide whether to implement voluntary or involuntary RIFs (or both); the considerations...more

WPI State of the States: New Year, New Legislative Trends

Littler on 2/5/2020

The year 2020 is already shaping up to be quite active on the employment law front, and a quarter of U.S. states have yet to convene their 2020 legislative sessions. In January, over 800 labor and employment-related bills,...more

Slate of N.J. Laws Require Severance Pay in Mass Layoffs and Increased Penalties for Worker Misclassification

Troutman Pepper Locke on 1/29/2020

January 2020 was a busy month for New Jersey’s executive branch. Governor Phil Murphy signed into law at least five workplace-related bills, one of which revised the New Jersey mini-WARN Act, one granting state regulators...more

UPDATE: New NJ WARN Act Signed into Law "THOU SHALL NOT LEAVE"—A New Jersey Bill Awaiting Signature By the Governor Would...

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 1/24/2020

UPDATE: On January 21, 2020, the Governor of New Jersey signed Senate Bill 3170 into law, pushing state law far past the corresponding federal requirements of the WARN Act. Governor Phil Murphy issued an omnibus press release...more

“THOU SHALL NOT LEAVE”—A New Jersey Bill Awaiting Signature By the Governor Would Dramatically Re-Write Existing Mass Layoff Laws

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 1/20/2020

Seyfarth Synopsis: On Monday, January 13, 2020, the New Jersey state legislature passed Senate Bill 3170 which, if signed by the Governor, would result in sweeping changes to what was once a mass layoff notification statute...more

[Podcast]: Reductions in Force

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace on 1/9/2020

In this episode of The Proskauer Brief, partners Harris Mufson and Evandro Gigante discuss considerations and best practices associated with reductions in force. Companies that make a business decision to reduce its staffing...more

Avoiding Discrimination Claims as the Result of a Reduction in Force

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC on 3/25/2019

Although the current economic indicators signal a healthy economy, many experts think that we will experience subdued economic growth in 2019 and 2020. In the midst of these uncertainties, some companies that grew a little...more

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