Some have said conference rooms are booked Oct. 5, but the e-mail today said 60 day notification. If we got that e-mail, does that mean Nov. 1?
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The WARN Act went out to everyone in the Houston area. The 60-days notice is in regards to 500+ layoffs taking place. Once laid off, you remain in the system for an additional 2-4 weeks. Therefore, to let people go by the end of October, they will be making notifications early to mid-October. There may still be layoffs before and after this time period, but the amount to trigger the WARN Act will be around this time frame.
In Calgary, they no longer walk you out. Last round, one guy stayed around for a few hours saying bye and packing up.
The email said "employment end date" which means the last day of being paid. Typically people have been left on payroll for 3 weeks after their journey to the conference room. This means the Oct 5th date in WL2&3 are correct for the beginning of the layoffs.
Letting people go October 1 still meets the deadlines outlined in the message below. That would match up with how people were handled that were let go April 1-2. We were left on the payroll until sometime much later in the month, and we were on employee insurance through 4/30/15.
"It is 60 days from today. Today's Email is the notification!!! Not the real layoff date. They will put everyone on payroll till October 30th."
Please note, everyone! You can expect to be surprised by the layoff notice even if you offered to go. You won't go back to your office. Therefore, keep all of your personal Outlook info copied off for your home pc. Otherwise, you will lose your appointments, notes, contacts, etc.
Best wishes!
It is 60 days from today. Today's Email is the notification!!! Not the real layoff date. They will put everyone on payroll till October 30th
But if you have severance, let's say 1 month, and you are notified tomorrow, that's technically OK for them to let you go in October. That'd be time between now and October (1 month) and one month of severance that would take them to two months. Not saying this will happen, but I think they would be covered legaly