Section 1400 Of Chapter 4. Relocations, Terminations, And Mass Layoffs From California Labor Code >> Division 2. >> Part 4. >> Chapter 4.
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. The definitions set forth in this section shall govern the
construction and meaning of the terms used in this chapter:
(a) "Covered establishment" means any industrial or commercial
facility or part thereof that employs, or has employed within the
preceding 12 months, 75 or more persons.
(b) "Employer" means any person, as defined by Section 18, who
directly or indirectly owns and operates a covered establishment. A
parent corporation is an employer as to any covered establishment
directly owned and operated by its corporate subsidiary.
(c) "Layoff" means a separation from a position for lack of funds
or lack of work.
(d) "Mass layoff" means a layoff during any 30-day period of 50 or
more employees at a covered establishment.
(e) "Relocation" means the removal of all or substantially all of
the industrial or commercial operations in a covered establishment to
a different location 100 miles or more away.
(f) "Termination" means the cessation or substantial cessation of
industrial or commercial operations in a covered establishment.
(g) (1) This chapter does not apply where the closing or layoff is
the result of the completion of a particular project or undertaking
of an employer subject to Wage Order 11, regulating the Broadcasting
Industry, Wage Order 12, regulating the Motion Picture Industry, or
Wage Order 16, regulating Certain On-Site Occupations in the
Construction, Drilling, Logging and Mining Industries, of the
Industrial Welfare Commission, and the employees were hired with the
understanding that their employment was limited to the duration of
that project or undertaking.
(2) This chapter does not apply to employees who are employed in
seasonal employment where the employees were hired with the
understanding that their employment was seasonal and temporary.
(h) "Employee" means a person employed by an employer for at least
6 months of the 12 months preceding the date on which notice is
required.