Managing Your Workforce During Market Volatility: RIFs

By , and on October 18, 2023
Posted In Employment

Market volatility and other business disruptions can force employers to make difficult personnel decisions around reductions in force (RIFs). These may include reducing employee headcount, eliminating entire departments, hiring independent consultants or implementing hiring freezes to ease potential financial burden.

During this webinar in our series exploring best practices for workforce management in volatile markets, Pankit DoshiLisa Loesel and Saniya Ahmed offered strategies to follow when making restructuring decisions.

Access the recording and top takeaways.

Pankit Doshi
Pankit J. Doshi focuses his practice on preventative counseling and representing employers in both state and federal courts up through trial and appeal. The cases involve issues related to misclassification, trade secret misappropriation, restrictive covenants, whistleblowers, wage and hour, wrongful termination, sexual harassment, discrimination, statutory leave, retaliation and breach of contract claims. Pankit also regularly defends employers in complex wage and hour class action and representative actions. Read Pankit Doshi's full bio.


Lisa Loesel
Lisa Loesel focuses her practice on employee benefits matters, including the design, amendment and administration of pension and 401(k) plans, nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements, and employee stock ownership plans. She counsels privately and publicly held corporations regarding the employee benefits design and transition matters arising from corporate mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. She also advises clients regarding fiduciary and plan investment issues under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). Lisa also has experience counseling plan fiduciaries with respect to the claims and appeals procedures under ERISA. Read Lisa Loesel's full bio.


Saniya Ahmed
Saniya Ahmed focuses her practice on employment litigation. Saniya counsels employers on labor and employment issues including: human resources issues, wage and hour law, labor relations, employment agreements, reduction in force, Title VII, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN), Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA), employment-related arbitration and litigation and employment-related policies. Read Saniya Ahmed's full bio.

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