CHAPTER 3

Comparative Analysis of the U.S. Federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN Act) and the Relevant Workforce Protection Laws in Germany and Italy

Germany and Italy are subject to directives and regulations of the European Union and to the decisions of the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights. European Court (EC), as a result of dealing with unemployment and seeing the need to address jobs security, issued a Council Directive of February 17, 1975 on the Approximation of the Laws of the Member States Relating to Collective Redundancies (layoffs) (the “Directive”). The Directive requires that when a company contemplates mass dismissal, the management must announce such a dismissal at least ...

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