Every year, Chuck commits to traveling to all62 counties in New York to meet with constituents.
Standing at the shuttered DeWitt Friendly’s restaurant on April 22, 2019, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer detailed a gaping loophole in the WARN Act that permitted the Friendly’s Corporation to heartlessly shut down 15 Upstate locations overnight, including 4 in Central New York, and lay-off hundreds of employees without so much as a day’s notice. Schumer explained that the hardworking service employees in Central New York and across Upstate New York deserved better from the Friendly’s Corporation, and argued that more must be done at the federal level to prevent similar mass layoffs from being sprung on workers overnight in the future. Therefore, Schumer announced his plans to introduce new legislation in the Senate that will strengthen the WARN Act by closing the “single employment site” loophole and consequently increase the circumstances under which employers must give two months’ notice to their employees of imminent and large-scale layoffs. Schumer said that this sort of mass layoff shouldn’t happen to workers without fair notice and urged his colleagues to pass his WARN Act-strengthening legislation immediately upon its introduction.