Indeed employees were emailed layoff notice and termination date is today with pay theough 3/31. However, this does not comply with the 60 day notice required by the WARN act. Has anyone talked to lawyers about this? Tesla and Twitter both caught fire and class actuon suits for layoffs last month. thoughts?
Wth? Pay through 3/31? Does that mean 1 month severance??
They paid through 3/31 and then the severance kicks in after that.
Not sure what else do you want from Indeed. By far they’re one of the greatest in terms of WLB and pay isn’t that bad so I heard.
Great company to work for. Even though we saw this coming in macro terms I think people were still caught off guard cause Indeed makes you feel very safe and secure in your job. At least in my experience.
True.
Indeed is giving 16 weeks of base pay as severance. Full payment including other components till 31/3/23
A company who helps people get jobs is laying off people? How ironic.
More customers for them
Don’t they make money from recruiters though? A lot less of those and a lot less recruiting in general
They don’t need to tell you. They can just keep you on payroll for 60 days
The WARN act does not require 60 day notice. It requires 60 day notice OR 60 days of severance.
That's partially true based on what I'm reading at the DOL. The WARN act does require 60 days notice aside from specific exceptions that dont apply here. In fact they explicitly cover this question. https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ETA/Layoff/pdfs/_EmployerWARN2003.pdf Page 23 PAY IN LIEU OF WARN NOTICE Can I pay my workers their salary and benefits for 60 days in lieu of notice? Neither the Act nor the regulations recognize the concept of pay in lieu of notice. WARN requires notice, making no provision for any alternative. Failure to give notice does a significant disservice to workers and undermines other services that are part of the purpose of the WARN Act. However, since WARN provides that the maximum employer liability for damages, including back pay and benefits, is for the period of violation up to 60 days, providing your employees with full pay and benefits for the 60-day period effectively precludes any relief. So basically, they flat out require it, but that they are hamstrung in what they can do to punish that behavior and protect the employee from the "significant disservice" From page 24 Can severance pay offset WARN damages? WARN allows "voluntary and unconditional" payments that are not "required by any legal obligation" to be offset against an employer's back pay liability. In many cases, however, severance pay is required by contract, including an employer's personnel policies and handbooks. These payments do not offset WARN damages and thus would not serve as pay in lieu of notice. So to me all this sounds like the requirement is there, but as long as you apologize nicely and shake hands, there are no real teeth to this to protect the workers from companies acting in bad faith and jerking workers around.
how does it not comply? you do know there’s a threshold for WARN? maybe this is 1 employee less than that threshold
op you are idiot delete the post
I think depending on your state, Indeed is an at Will company
Not a surprise, Indeed HR is extremely incompetent. I'm not part of the layoff but I believe if they offered you 60 days of severance in liu of notice, then its allowed.
Companies like Meta gave 60 days plus severance. Was that just out of the kindness of their hearts?
Nothing is out of “the kindness of their hearts”. Corporations by nature are not kind. There’s a dollar value for everything. When I was laid off Snap, the price for 2 additional months of severance on top of the required 60 days is that we waive our right to sue the company. In total, we got 4 months severance, but it definitely wasn’t free.