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Why didn't Biogen have to abide with the WARN act?

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anonymous said:
This doesn't make sense. Why is everyone's last day March 18th? When it should be 60 days from now?
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They cleverly got advice from lawyers and found a loophole so they wouldn't have to pay the $. Make no mistake AT LEAST 50% of TBM's will be laid off no matter what in April. This is your heads up to find a new job by then. This is 100% accurate and it is important you understand this. No one should be making plans to stay here obviously. This is a dead drug.
 
















https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/the-warn-act-and-covid-19-what-are-34697/

My guess is that they used a few loopholes. One calling this unforeseen circumstances- which is why they limited it to Alz Division- to be able to blame the layoff on the NCD altho we knew this was coming across Biogen. Then, they likely stayed just under the threshold in each state that requires a warn based on number of employees in the state and number of employees laid off. It’s absolutely sneaky and hope they are held accountable.
 




Something happened to Sanofi reps two years ago. The loophole is that they count the employees in the division not the entire company. Since the division is less than 500 employees they use that not to pay warn act. I contacted a lawyer about this and the lawyer said the company was wrong but to go after them you would have to forfeit your package. Tried to get a class action but Nobody wanted to give up their package .
Could not muster enough representatives that would sign on for the law firm.
 












Field is considered part of headquarters, which is why other pharma companies have had to report to WARN. Biogen did not lay off enough people to qualify for WARN rules. It wasn’t 500 people and a faculty/site wasn’t closed. That STAT news article is a bunch of BS. It wasn’t 300 people. At the most it was 300 positions (still doubtful), but the whole US AD team was only at 474 as of last Friday, and many more had already put in their 2 weeks notice. There were not that many layoffs anywhere that would be considered HQ. They filed in 2015 because they laid off over 800 people. There was no loophole.
 












Michel’s all company email in December announcing cost reductions, including layoffs, counted as official notice. Company doesn’t have to specify who is getting impacted.
 








anonymous said:
Never Getting Sold
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No shit. Everyone already knows this. You're not doing anything other than making yourself look like a lunatic with a pathological obsession with this garbage med and trash can company.

Do you think you're somehow taunting us or making some kind of clever attack?

Aduhelm is a complete and total failure and is never going to be sold on a large scale.

Might as well post "water is wet" or "the sky is blue".
 




Nothing is what it seems with this layoff. The numbers let go are just to get around WARN and notifying Wall Street. They are trying to fool everyone who was “cut” into thinking the interviews next week are legit. They aren’t. They ones that have jobs already know this too. They have the people they want (and those people know) and despite interviews you’re fooling yourself if you think they are real. They’ll lay off remaining people they don’t want in April. Then continue to cut an amount small enough to get around WARN.
 




anonymous said:
Nothing is what it seems with this layoff. The numbers let go are just to get around WARN and notifying Wall Street. They are trying to fool everyone who was “cut” into thinking the interviews next week are legit. They aren’t. They ones that have jobs already know this too. They have the people they want (and those people know) and despite interviews you’re fooling yourself if you think they are real. They’ll lay off remaining people they don’t want in April. Then continue to cut an amount small enough to get around WARN.
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This is true. The people who know they are staying are calm and cool while the rest of us are scrambling to “interview”.

Yet again another shady process. One of my colleagues slipped and told me they were “staying”. Interesting. I smell lots of lawsuits coming.

Biogen has done the patients, their families, providers, supplier all an injustice with this launch that they claim they never got a chance to do. Oh you did. You just did everything wrong. Starting from day 1!
 




You’re correct on all of what you just said. Shady shady shady. Nothing is what it seems. Despite the fact I was retained no chance I’m staying in this mess. Just wonder why the board continues to sit on their hands and make no moves!?
 




anonymous said:
Field is considered part of headquarters, which is why other pharma companies have had to report to WARN. Biogen did not lay off enough people to qualify for WARN rules. It wasn’t 500 people and a faculty/site wasn’t closed. That STAT news article is a bunch of BS. It wasn’t 300 people. At the most it was 300 positions (still doubtful), but the whole US AD team was only at 474 as of last Friday, and many more had already put in their 2 weeks notice. There were not that many layoffs anywhere that would be considered HQ. They filed in 2015 because they laid off over 800 people. There was no loophole.
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Get real - you are an "at will" hire - you get cut, you get cut. Move on - you should have realized it was a risky job option (if you did your homework that is).
 








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