Employers planning mass layoffs must make certain that the action is economically justified and unbiased, if they want to avoid wrongful-termination and other employment-related lawsuits, according to a Chicago employment lawyer.
Thousands of laid-off workers age 40 and older have decided to use their between-jobs status as an opportunity to drop out of the rat race for a while, at least, according to the Washington Post.
June saw 2,080 mass layoffs, bringing the total for the first half of the year to 9,500, compared to 7,470 for the first half of last year, the U.S. Labor Department announced on Friday.
Tales of woe from the dot-com world have become commonplace, but the survey results scheduled for release today by techies.com may contain the gloomiest news yet.
Those widely publicized layoff surveys conducted by the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas often paint an inaccurate picture of the employment situation in the U.S., economists tell the Wall Street Journal.
