FWIW, even though Lockheed's leadership may want to make a political
point using the WARN act, it would hurt morale among the engineers,
etc. The aerospace engineers around here are getting a little tired of
all the lay-off warnings, not to mention actual lay-offs.

David Shemano wrote:
> As an insolvency lawyer, I am fairly familiar with the WARN Act, usually in 
> the capacity of attempting to determine whether notices must be sent where 
> there is a risk that sending the notices will kill an attempted 
> restructuring.  Under your circumstance, I don't see how sending a notice is 
> an "abuse" of the WARN Act.  If Lockheed contemplates that layoffs will occur 
> in January if the sequester occurs, they will want to have given the notice 
> 60 days in advance (November) as opposed to waiting until January and then 
> giving 60 days' notice.  In a litigious society, it is always safer to do 
> more than less.<
-- 
Jim Devine / If you're going to support the lesser of two evils, you
should at least know the nature of that evil.
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