SETTLEMENT APPROVED
Raisner Roupinian LLP filed a class action suit on July 23, 2019, against Charming Charlie Holdings, Inc., Charming Charlie International LLC, Charming Charlie LLC, Charming Charlie Manhattan LLC, Charming Charlie USA, Inc., Poseidon Partners CMS, Inc., and Charming Charlie Canada LLC (together “Charming Charlie”) seeking to recover 60 days’ wages and benefits under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (“WARN”) Act. We contended Charming Charlie ordered a mass layoff on or about July 12, 2019, without providing its employees advance written notice.
The parties in this cash strapped estate reached a settlement in which a percentage of the estate’s collection recoveries were used to fund the WARN settlement. The settlement class consists of former employees who worked at, reported to, or received assignments from Charming Charlie’s facilities located at 6001 Savoy Drive, Houston, Texas and 13323 South Gessner Road, Missouri, Texas, and were terminated without cause on or about July 11, 2019, and within thirty days of that date, or as the reasonably foreseeable consequence of the mass layoffs.
The settlement was subject to preliminary and final approval by the Bankruptcy Court. On April 19, 2022, the Court granted preliminary approval of the settlement. The settlement administrator sent notice of the terms of the settlement to all class members on April 26, 2022. On June 6, 2022, the Bankruptcy Court granted final approval. In September 2023, the settlement administrator received approximately $575,000 on behalf of the WARN class.
The settlement administrator mailed individual checks to class members on October 10, 2023.
WARN ACT
Raisner Roupinian LLP will provide you with information regarding your rights in this WARN class action. The federal WARN Act requires companies with 100+ full-time employees to provide them with 60 days’ written notice in advance of a mass layoff or plant closing. Additionally, certain states also have WARN Acts.
Without the required notice, an employer may be liable for 60 days’ wages and benefits to each affected employee.
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