SETTLEMENT APPROVED
The parties reached a proposed $10,000,000 settlement of the WARN class action subject to preliminary and final approval by the Bankruptcy Court. On February 23, 2022, the Court granted preliminary approval and notice of the terms of the settlement was mailed to all class members on March 11, 2022. On April 27, 2022, the Bankruptcy Court granted final approval.
Settlement checks were mailed to eligible class members on June 21, 2022.
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PREVIOUS UPDATES
On September 16, 2016, we filed our WARN suit in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Indiana, against ITT Educational Services, Inc. (“ITT”), seeking to recover 60 days wages and benefits for former employees under the federal and California Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (“WARN”) Acts. We contended that ITT ordered mass layoffs then, without providing its employees with advance written notice as required by the WARN Acts.
In January 2017, the Bankruptcy Court appointed us interim class counsel to represent the WARN Act claimants. Subsequently, the parties engaged in limited discovery and asked the Bankruptcy Court to certify the case as a class action.
The Bankruptcy Court certified both a federal and California WARN class on June 8, 2020, covering all ITT employees terminated on or about September 6, 2016, and appointed Raisner Roupinian LLP Class Counsel. Notice of the class action was mailed to the members of the class by June 30, 2020.
In 2020, the parties agreed to participate in a formal settlement process called “mediation,” in an effort to reach a consensual resolution of the WARN claims on behalf of the class. Mediation, which occurred on November 2, 2021. The mediation was successful in that a settlement was reached, causing the parties to seek Court approval, including permission of Class Counsel to provide notice by mail of the terms of the proposed settlement to the members of the class.
As a reminder, only employees who worked at ITT sites covered by the federal or California WARN Acts were eligible to share in the settlement.
COVERED SITES LISTED BELOW
| Fort Lauderdale, FL | Orange, CA |
| Lake Mary, FL | National City, CA |
| Mobile, AL | San Bernardino, CA |
| Philadelphia, PA | Sylmar, CA |
| Portland, OR | Torrance, CA |
| Richardson, TX | Clovis, CA |
| Springfield, VA | Corona, CA |
| Tampa, FL | Lathrop, CA |
| Norfolk, VA | Oxnard, CA |
| Houston North, TX | San Dimas, CA |
| Houston West, TX | Rancho Cordova, CA |
| Jacksonville, FL | |
| HQ Building, IN | |
| Online, IN |
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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