The #WARN Act requires many #employers to provide at least 60 days’ notice before implementing large-scale #layoffs or plant closures. This typically applies when a #business has at least 100 full-time #employees & lays off 50 or more employees at a single site.

Although #Volvo’s planned reduction appears close to this threshold, whether WARN obligations were triggered depends on the specific circumstances, including the timing & aggregation of the layoffs.

While #layoffs are an unfortunate reality in today’s volatile #economy, this development brings a number of #legal considerations to the forefront, particularly for #employment attys advising either #businesses or affected #workers.

One of the first questions raised by the layoffs is whether the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (#WARN) Act applies.

#Volvo’s 5% #Workforce Cut in #SouthCarolina Raises #WARN Act Compliance & #Employment #Law Considerations

#VolvoCars recently announced that it will reduce its workforce by about 5% at its Ridgeville, South Carolina plant.

Approximately 125 employees, spanning both assembly & office positions, will be affected.

The company pointed to shifting #market conditions & new #trade policies, including #Trump’s #tariffs, as the main reasons behind the decision.

https://www.lawyer-monthly.com/2025/05/volvos-5-workforce-cut-in-south-carolina-raises-warn-act-compliance-and-employment-law-considerations/

@lauren

#SandraBullock was #effectively able to #dissuade me of that #pipeDream in the 1995 #film #theNet

We even had a #KurtCobain to physically #warn us about the very idea of #Nirvana

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0113957/

Unfortunately, most were still too enamored of their softly spoken lies, "You've got mail."