There are some, limited legal protections in the US, notably the WARN act: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraining_Notification_Act" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraini...</a><p>Still even provisions like that are inconsistently applied.  I worked at an internal development studio of a large video game publisher that closed, resulting in the layoff of all ~90 employees.  The studio had two offices: one in Los Angeles, California and another, smaller office in Austin, Texas.  The employees at the LA office were covered under the WARN act and thus paid&#x2F;insured through the end of the year (2 months) and received company severance on top of that.  Those of us at the smaller Austin office were not covered under the WARN act as we had less than 50 employees at that location.  Instead we received a check for our last two week pay period and the aforementioned severance package.