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This is a list of abbreviations used in law and legal documents. It is common practice in legal documents to cite other publications by using standard abbreviations for the title of each source. Abbreviations may also be found for common words or legal phrases.
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988 (the "WARN Act") is a U.S. labor law that protects employees, their families, and communities by requiring most employers with 100 or more employees to provide notification 60 calendar days in advance of planned closings and mass layoffs of employees. [1]
Originally, layoff referred exclusively to a temporary interruption in work, or employment [3] but this has evolved to a permanent elimination of a position in both British and US English, [1] [failed verification] requiring the addition of "temporary" to specify the original meaning of the word. A layoff is not to be confused with wrongful ...
As the year's final quarter is coming to a close, some of the world's largest companies are announcing significant layoffs. Meta Platforms, Inc., Amazon.com, Inc. and Twitter, Inc are just a few...
West Des Moines-based Innovation Refunds has announced another round of layoffs, this time paring its workforce by 44 workers. It said the reduction in staff was effective Feb. 22.
A less severe form of involuntary termination is often referred to as a layoff (also redundancy or being made redundant in British English). A layoff is usually not strictly related to personal performance but instead due to economic cycles or the company's need to restructure itself, the firm itself going out of business, or a change in the function of the employer (for example, a certain ...
Firms announced 55,597 layoffs last month, down 23.7% from the 72,821 announced in September, outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas said. Layoffs would have been even lower last month ...
Dutch law provides that a "transition allowance" (transitievergoeding) is due to the employee within one month of the end of employment if the employment was terminated by the employer and not the employee, including if the employer chose to not renew a temporary work contract, save if the termination was due to a grave fault by the employee or ...