World417_TS_04

As part of the completed merger, ChasingStreams transferred to ParaZon thirty employees, who would continue the same work under ParaZon’s rate of pay and benefits, most of which were substantially similar to ChasingStreams. After Jaydon Cole was laid off by ParaZon, he filed a class action lawsuit, violation of the California WARN Act by failing to provide him and twenty other similarly situated employees 60 days’ notice of a “layoff.”

ParaZon is considering a motion to dismiss on the grounds t...

No, ParaZon is unlikely to succeed in its Motion to Dismiss.

Cole could successfully assert that the WARN Act applies by combining the number of laid off employees with the number of transferred employees, thereby meeting the WARN Act threshold of a "mass layoff."