SETTLEMENT APPROVED
Raisner Roupinian LLP filed a class action suit on February 11, 2019, against DC Solar Solutions, Inc., Double Jump, Inc., Dora Dog Properties, LLC, Dog Blue Properties, LLC, Brandy Boy Properties, LLC, 475 Channel Road, LLC, Park Road, LLC, 140 Mason Circle, LLC, and DC Solar Distribution, Inc. (together “Double Jump”). We sought to recover 60 days’ wages and benefits for former Benicia and Buena Park employees under the California Labor Code § 1400 et. seq. (the “California WARN Act”).
We contended Double Jump ordered mass layoffs on or about December 18, 2018, without providing its employees with advance written notice. The case was heard in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Nevada.
The Court, on August 3, 2021, granted our motion to certify the WARN case as a class action. Importantly, the Court also appointed the Plaintiff as class representative and our firm as Class Counsel.
THE SETTLEMENT CLASS
The settlement class comprises the Plaintiff and all persons who worked at, reported to, or received assignments from Defendants’ Facility in Benicia, California who were terminated without cause, as part of, or as the result of, a mass layoff ordered and carried out beginning on December 18, 2018 and within 30 days of that date, who were not provided 60 days’ advance written notice of their terminations as required by the Cal-WARN Act.
On April 8, 2022, the settlement administrator mailed notice of the class action. Subsequently, on September 29, 2022, the parties participated in a court ordered mediation. The parties reached a proposed $400,000 settlement of the WARN pay and benefits. This settlement was subject to preliminary and final approval by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Nevada.
On September 21, 2023, the Court granted preliminary approval of the settlement. Shortly afterwards, on October 12, 2023, the settlement administrator mailed notice of the terms of the settlement to all class members. The Court granted final approval at the Fairness Hearing on December 7, 2023.
The settlement administrator mailed checks to class members on February 5, 2024.
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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