Legal Question in Employment Law in Georgia

The plant i am currently working at is shut down due to a product recall issue. The employees have been notified that we cannot return to work until further notice. the employees are supposed to be compensated for this shut down right?


Asked on 8/27/12, 12:42 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

Michael Caldwell DeLong, Caldwell, Bridgers & Fitzpatrick LLC

Not necessarily. The question would be whether the temporary closure is covered by the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act., That act only applies to employers with 100 or more full time (e.g. aggregated 4000 hours) employees working at the site, where the layoff affects at least 50 employees who comprise no less than 33% of the total employees employed at the site, or at least 500 employees. In that case it has to give at least 60 days advance warning unless this is not possible. There are other exceptions as well. You may be able to collect unemployment compensation since you are laid off.

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Answered on 8/27/12, 1:08 pm


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