1. What are the legal and ethical responsibilities of Whirlpool in a plant-closing case such as the one in Evansville, Indiana?
The decision to close the Whirlpool plant in Indiana was a business one, but Whirlpool had legal and ethical responsibilities to take care of. The legal responsibility of Whirlpool was to notify its workers at least sixty days before mass downsizing, under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988(WARN Act). As Whirlpool had informed its employees a year before, it had fulfilled its legal responsibilities.
The ethical responsibilities of Whirlpool were to facilitate the relocation of ...