Nov 14 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider whether the COVID-19 pandemic was a “natural disaster” exempting businesses from a federal law requiring that workers be given advanced notice of mass layoffs.
The justices rejected drilling company U.S. Well Services Inc’s petition for review of a U.S. appeals court’s ruling that said the layoff law was meant to apply to unpredictable geological and meteorological events such as earthquakes and floods, and not to pandemics.
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