Firings for performance do not entitle an employee to severance,
This keeps getting repeated on this thread but its not true. U.S. WARN laws require severance or 60 days notice for mass layoffs (which would definitely include 5% of a company as large as GM). Only terminations for cause are exempted, and performance is only grounds for cause in a very small handful of "right to work" states.
This keeps getting repeated on this thread but its not true. U.S. WARN laws require severance or 60 days notice for mass layoffs (which would definitely include 5% of a company as large as GM). Only terminations for cause are exempted, and performance is only grounds for cause in a very small handful of "right to work" states.