Comment / Yellow Corpse – WARN Act decision stings as Teamsters lose

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In a nutshell: Three years after one of the largest mass layoffs in American logistics history, the courts have decided: Yellow Corp’s Teamsters are getting nothing under the WARN Act. The ruling raises uncomfortable questions about whether the statute protects anyone at all.

There is a certain brutal arithmetic to the Yellow Corp saga. The company had 30,000 employees, 22,000 of whom were Teamsters. It ceased operations at noon on 30 July 2023, and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on ...