Community Health Systems and Venice HMA LLC d/b/a Shorepoint Health Venice were hit with an employment class action Monday in Florida Middle District Court over alleged violations of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act. The suit, brought by Wenzel Fenton Cabassa, follows the company’s 33 percent elimination of its facilities employees, excluding part-time employees, and the resulting mass layoff of more than 600 workers. Counsel have not yet appeared for the defendants. The case is 8:22-cv-01989, White v. Community Health Systems, Inc. et al.

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Read the complaint:

Named Plaintiff, Callie White (“Plaintiff”), on behalf of herself and on behalf

of all others similarly situated (collectively “Plaintiffs”), files this Class Action

Complaint against Defendants, Community Health Systems, Inc. and Venice HMA,

LLC d/b/a ShorePoint Health Venice (“Defendants”) for violations of the Worker

Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, 29 U.S.C. § 2101 et seq. (the “WARN

Notification Act, 29 U.S.C. § 2101 et seq. (the “WARN Act”) by terminating the

Named Plaintiffs and the putative class members without providing sufficient

liability is...

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