Careful risk management remains essential for companies involved in downsizing programs, regardless of how the U.S. Supreme Court rules on Meacham vs. Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory–a case heard in late April with allegations of discriminatory layoffs based on age at its core, experts say.
"Companies always lay people off, for various reasons," and such actions in and of themselves are not inherently risky, said Phillip Voluck, a managing partner in the Pennsylvania office of the law firm of Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck LLP.
The risk, he explained, is how companies go about selecting the individual employees that will be laid off.
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