Raisner Roupinian LLP quoted regarding WARN Act lawsuits in the COVID-19 pandemic

Raisner Roupinian’s Jack Raisner was quoted in Bloomberg Law on the subject of WARN liability in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“These are not slam-dunk lawsuits, particularly when employers have a defense as compelling at first blush as Covid-19,” said Jack Raisner of the plaintiff-side firm Raisner Roupinian. “You’re probably going to need to show some underlying fragility of the company that should have made them aware. So there’s not mass WARN liability.”

Strong, healthy businesses that follow the advice of their lawyers and bounce back when they reopen are going to withstand WARN liability, said Raisner, who’s also an employment law professor at St. John’s University. Companies that were already compromised and didn’t heed the law will be susceptible to lawsuits, he said.

Read the full Bloomberg Law article here.