Legal? Yes. No known law requires advanced notice of individual layoff. WARN Act applies to mass layoffs.
SOme union contracts require advanced notice of layoff, but only 9% of workers have union conttacts.
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Yes. And if you are being layed off without one, you should request one. You will need it if you have trouble collecting unemployment, for example.
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The correct term is "laid off."
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Made redundant. 'He was laid off by the company.'
The correct spelling is "laid off". This term is used when an employee is dismissed or let go from their job by their employer.
If your employer told you that you were being laid off, that usually means the company does not have enough work for you. It means you have lost your job through no fault of your own. In the United States and many other countries, you then go to the state employment office and sign up. You may be eligible to get money for almost 9 months, or until you get a job. If you had health insurance, you may also be able to continue that for 18 months. Nothing is automatic.
There is a difference between laid off or layed off. In relation to being dismissed from work, the correct phrase to use is laid off. Layed off actually has no grammatical meaning.
Business has been slow at the factory, and as a result I was laid off.
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No, one week without work is not unemployment. It's a vacation.