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Yellow layoffs class action lawsuit overview:
- Who: Armando Rivera filed a class action lawsuit against Yellow Corp.
- Why: Rivera claims Yellow failed to give workers let go during a mass layoff and/or plant closure late last month the legally required advance written notice.
- Where: The class action lawsuit was filed in Delaware federal court.
Yellow Corp. failed to provide employees who were let go during mass layoffs and/or plant closing late last month with the required 60 days written notice prior to being terminated, a new class action lawsuit alleges.
Plaintiff Armando Rivera claims he was among almost 30,000 employees who were terminated from their employment as a result of plant closings that were allegedly ordered by Yellow on or about July 28.
Rivera argues he and other Yellow employees were not given 60 days’ written notice in advance of their terminations, as allegedly required by the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN Act) and California’s version of the WARN Act.
Rivera wants to represent a nationwide class, a California class and a New Jersey class of former Yellow employees who were not given the required written notice prior to being let go during the mass layoff and/or plant closings on or about July 28.
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Rivera claims Yellow also failed to provide 90 days’ written notice to the employees let go during the mass layoff as allegedly required by the New Jersey Millville Dallas Airmotive Plant Job Loss Notification Act.
“Defendants failed to give Plaintiff and other similarly situated employees of Defendants the requisite 60 or 90 days’ advance notice of their terminations, as required by the WARN Acts,” the Yellow class action states.
The plaintiff is demanding a jury trial and requesting an award of statutory remedies for himself and all class members.
In another case involving a mass layoff, a federal judge in California ruled in January that five former Twitter workers let go during a mass layoff last November will have to independently arbitrate their claims they were not provided sufficient notice before being let go.
Have you not been given sufficient notice prior to being let go during a mass layoff? Let us know in the comments.
The plaintiff is represented by Christopher D. Loizides of Loizides PA and Jack A. Raisner and René S. Roupinian of Raisner Roupinian LLP.
The Yellow layoffs class action lawsuit is Rivera v. Yellow Corp., et al., Case No. 1:23-cv-00830, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.
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8 thoughts onYellow class action claims sudden layoffs violate law requiring 60 days’ notice
Worked at Yellow 35 years and they locked us out…..no warning….
please add me
I worked for Yellow (Holland) and I am part of this lawsuit.
Unifi Aviation Service “Mobile location” fired all employee’s without any notice the early morning hours of July 3rd after we finish shift operations. We had no prior notice and were told we had to sign the severance agreement within a few days or we wouldn’t get paid. Workers were so stunned and caught off guard. People have suffered depression along with lost wages they are entitled to. I’m still under worksmen comp for a arm injury.
I was one of the non-union Yellow employees working at New Penn Express in Camp Hill, Pa. who wasn’t given the required notice before the company shut down. The company’s argument that it didn’t have time to notify employees in advance is bogus. The company knew for 9 months that the union was not going to bail them out again, which is why there were little in the way of negotiations between the two. Yellow owes me 2 weeks PTO (vacation pay) and my last paycheck. They created a situation where the employees were living with the unbearable stress every day of not knowing whether they would have a job the next day..for 9 months.
The company is responsible for much more than just the pay the employees haven’t gotten.
Thank you. Kenneth Zeigler
No company with workers in any of the states that have required notification number of days can use the bankruptcy excuse to get out of paying the employees their due amount of notice and pay. Just because the company has multiple locations and decides on a course of action to close the entire business using bankruptcy doesn’t exclude them from paying this. The A&P/Patnmark bankruptcy motion in 2015 which was over multiple states locations had to abide by each state law requirement and could not hide funds supposedly “earmarked” for the executives and shareholders and had to pay severance pay.
No,I worked for yrc for a year and we did .it get a pink slip ,there were more signs of information provided to me from management in regards to a layoff.I got a call since my schedule says are Sunday through Friday and my supervisor called me a hr before starting time to advises no need to come in to work.We were told that I’f the union and yrc could not come to a agreement the gate would be locked.I’m out of job and about to lose everything
There is no chance of a settlement in this case. The chapter 7 bankruptcy has left the coffers empty. If you need to blame someone for layoff, look to the union leadership. They did not negotiate with the employees best interests at heart.