Legal Opinion
Davis v. Signal International Texas GP, L.L.C
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 28, 2013No. 12-41262PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REAVLEY, Circuit Judge.
This appeal involves the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (“WARN Act”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 2101 et seq. The WARN Act requires that certain employers provide written notice within 60 days in advance of any “mass layoff’ at “a single site of employment.” In 2009, Defendant-Appellant Signal International, a Gulf Coast marine services and shipbuilding company, fired a number of its workers without providing advance written notice. Plaintiffs-Appellees allege that Signal’s reduction in employment constituted a mass layoff under the WARN Act, and thus that Signal…
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