Quote:According to the now-former Telltale employees, an all-hands meeting scheduled for last Friday resulted in hundreds of immediate layoffs. By the time workers returned to their desks, their employee G Suite accounts were deactivated, and they had just 30 minutes to leave the building. Unlike many technology companies, Telltale offered employees no severance and medical benefits are scheduled to expire at the end of this month.

So, that whole situation no doubt left a sour taste in many a mouth. According to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, Telltale might have broken the law by doing it that way. The law from 1988 stipulates that a business with 100 or more employees must provide written notice 60 days in advance of a mass layoff. The act defines mass layoffs as the firing of 50 or more employees in a 30-day span, provided that amounts to at least a third of the workforce. California has an even more stringent version of the WARN Act that lowers the number of workers to 75 and includes part-time workers in the sum.