Spirit Airlines’ bankruptcy has become a high-profile example of the legal hurdles terminated employees face, even as they argue the mass layoffs were done without the legally required notice.
When the low-cost carrier abruptly suspended operations and laid off thousands of employees in May, it told workers that it couldn’t provide the required advance notice under federal law because doing so would have “adversely impacted” its ability to secure the capital needed to continue operations.
A proposed class representing around 17,000 terminated employees is now asserting claims under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, which requires employers to provide ...
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