This is what I am most concerned about. Seeds are in high demand and we just lost a supplier.
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How does anti-trust laws affect this? Anti-trust laws are and were to prevent one company from having a monopoly in a market.
If a company employs 500 or more people, they are covered by the federal WARN Act which requires them to give 6 weeks written notice of layoffs, however if the company employs 499 they are not required to do anything in advance.
They may want to get in touch with a labor board or a lawyer. Many states have laws that if X number of employees are going to be laid off they need to give 60 days notice and or severance equal to that 60 days.
I only know this because a company I worked at was bought out by a competitor and the gave us all this notice as they we closing down our office and the notice stated that this warning was required by law. It may have been a state law though.
Let the newly minted communists start their own factory. Surely they have the capital and are willing to risk it on this venture. They could all second mortgage their homes and pool thier money and risk it all.
The only thing wrong here is the low class way the old and new owners informed their workers. If I start a factory and own it I reserve the right to sell it.
rlm, I'm pretty sure I read they got 60 days' pay-in-lieu.