Carpenters District Council of New Orleans & Vicinity v. Dillard Dept. Stores, Inc., Etc., Stephen J. Plescia, Etc. v. Dillard Dept. Stores, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “administrative rules should not be construed as having retroactive effect unless their language requires that result”
• emphasizing that a court must “avoid any interpretation that would lead to absurd or unreasonable outcome”
• suggesting that exceptions to the WARN Act’s notice requirements should be “narrowly construed” so as not to infringe the Act’s broad remedial purpose
• finding that lower court did not err in finding employer did not act in good faith when it was aware of Act’s notice requirements, but “consistently resolved any questionable [notice] issue in its favor.”
• discussing the part-time versus full-time worker, hypothetical, in which the part-time worker is compensated more than the full-time worker under the “calendar days” approach
• \~I'Jhe regulations specify that conditional notice is op tional to avoid the problem of imposing liability on employers for failing to give a conditional notice.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).