HIGH POINT – A former employee at Klaussner Home Furnishing’s headquarters in Asheboro has filed a class action civil lawsuit against the company seeking collection of wages and benefits for 60 days as required under the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN).

In the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Delaware, Trey Chavis and others allege Klaussner failed to provide them with the required “60 days’ advanced written notice of termination” the WARN Act requires when it said it was going out of business. The case was filed in the Delaware court because Klaussner is incorporated in Wilmington, Del.

Klaussner announced Monday, Aug. 7, that it was ceasing operations because its lender would no longer fund the company. The WARN filing, which said the company employed 884 people, was emailed and sent via FedEx to the N.C. Department of Commerce on the same day Klaussner made its announcement on its website’s homepage.

The lawsuit says the number of employees impacted is too “numerous” and that including them in the document would be “impracticable.”

Chavis, who worked at the company’s facility at 405 Lewallen Road in Asheboro, and the other employees are asking for unpaid wages, salary, commissions, bonuses, accrued holiday pay, accrued vacation pay, pension and 401(K) contributions and other benefits that would have been covered for 60 days following the employees’ terminations.

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