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Suit charges owners of shuttered parenting centers failed to notify workers they were about to go under
By adamg on Sat, 09/20/2014 - 7:27pm
Nancy Gair, who spent seven years as an instructor at the local Isis Parenting centers, says the company owes her and other workers back pay after it suddenly shut down in January.
In a lawsuit against former Isis managers and investors filed in US District Court in Boston this week, Gair is seeking to become lead plaintiff for roughly 200 hourly Isis employees who, she said, were never told the company was on the verge of a shutdown - in violation of federal law - and who are owed pay work they were required to do but for which they were never reimbursed.
In the months leading up to the Shutdown, as Isis faltered financially, the Investor Defendants scrambled to collect and secure Isis's intellectual property in order to shore up their ability to liquidate Isis and recoup some of their investment. The Investor Defendants feared that any advance notice of the Shutdown would jeopardize their investment return and therefore, along with the other Defendants, refused to inform the Employees of the coming Shutdown.
Gair says the employees are owed 60 days' back pay, pay for the unreimbursed work, triple damages and lawyers' fees.
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ISIS had Parenting Centers in the area?
Perhaps they can reopen under their new name, ISIL.
Ha.
Ha. Ha.
Not funny, actually
Losing your job isn't amusing.
Given the size of the business (>100 employees) the owners do have an obligation to give their employees 60 days notice of the layoff and it sounds like they they ignored the law to benefit themselves financially. The plaintiff are only asking what the law requires.
No, funny
My wife and I received training (in prepared childbirth) from Isis, and although I am saddened by their closing, and the crappy way staff ended up being treated, and although I am disturbed by the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, I do think the joke is there.
Too bad the baby store didn't survive long enough for the geopolitical PR nightmare!
Speculation trumped obligation.
It would seem.
They were right to worry
I worked at a place that was closing for renovation. They put everyone on 60-days notice...for 16 months...as they lobbied the city for construction permits and hashed out the final details. We're closing in 60 days! Uh, it'll be another 60 days! We're serious this time, 60 days! (Savvy individuals will be able to guess where I worked.)
Most of the staff left in the first six months, as did most of the customers. Management started getting angry at people. "Why are they leaving us? Now we have to hire new people. Our customers are going elsewhere, this is really bad!" Uh, you told everyone you're closing and they're losing their jobs, of course all the staff and customers looked elsewhere.