Recently the owner of my company swore to us there would not be any more layoffs at my company. But then literally a week later another huge layoff happened (we’ve already had several this year.) Obviously I am ticked off and started googling potential types of recourse people might have, if any, and I stumbled upon this thing called “Promissory Estoppel.” Based on my very limited understanding, it sounds like it’s a term for when an employer makes a promise to an employee and then breaks it and the consequences are detrimental to the employee. Obviously you have to be able to prove a promise was made, but it still feels like it fits a lot of the stories on this sub. I am just curious if anyone has ever tried to argue this and what the situation was.