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The e-cigarette company said it was adding an average of 300 employees a month, including upward of 30 new employees a week in some offices around the US, several former employees told Business Insider.last year after an investment from the tobacco giant Altria, which was bracing itself for a future in which adult smokers were increasingly seeking alternatives to cigarettes.
The email went on to say that it was compliant with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, which requires employers with 100 or more employees to provide 60 days' notice ahead of mass layoffs, and that Juul was paying severance that exceeded the law's requirements. Crosthwaite and Fahlbusch's email was one of the few official forms of communication from the company about the layoffs, though, several former employees told Business Insider.
"If you got a calendar invite, that was the sign that you were on the way out," a former San Francisco-based employee said.