{"id":65,"date":"2020-09-30T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/2020\/09\/30\/some-states-and-cities-help-laid-off-workers-reclaim-former-jobs\/"},"modified":"2020-09-30T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T09:00:00","slug":"some-states-and-cities-help-laid-off-workers-reclaim-former-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/2020\/09\/30\/some-states-and-cities-help-laid-off-workers-reclaim-former-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Some States and Cities Help Laid Off Workers Reclaim Former Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In several states and cities, &#8220;recall&#8221; ordinances now require certain employers to offer new openings to the workers they laid off before hiring from outside.<\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How recall rights work<\/h3><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Covered employers must notify qualified former employees of open positions (usually in order of seniority) and give them a window to accept. The rules vary widely in which industries they cover and how long the rights last.<\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Know your window<\/h3><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recall rights expire, and missed notices are a common dispute. Former employees should keep contact details current with prior employers and document every communication. If a position was filled without notice, an employment attorney can assess whether the ordinance was violated and what remedies apply.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What recall ordinances mean for displaced employees seeking to return to their former positions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[37,34,36,38],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-employment-law","tag-legal-news","tag-legislation","tag-workers-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}