UPDATE 04/01/2025
On March 7, 2025, the New York District Court granted preliminary approval of a WARN class settlement of $700,000, subject to final approval at a fairness hearing scheduled for May 6, 2025.
Notice of the terms of the settlement was sent by first class mail to all class members on March 28, 2025.
The certified class of eligible class members is comprised of former employees who worked at, reported to, or received assignments from Defendant’s facilities located in Brooklyn, Farmingdale, and Peekskill, NY who were terminated on June 3, 2024, or within 90 days of that date, as the result of a mass layoff or closing.
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PREVIOUS UPDATE
Raisner Roupinian LLP filed a class action complaint on June 21, 2024, against The Beverage Works NY, Inc., dba The Beverage Works, (“Defendant”) seeking to recover 60 days’ wages and benefits for terminated employees under the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (“WARN”) Act and 90 days’ wages and benefits under the New York State Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (“NY WARN”) Act (cumulatively, the “WARN Acts”).
We contend the Defendant ordered mass layoffs on or about June 3, 2024, and within 90 days of that date, without providing 60- or 90-days’ written notice as required by the respective WARN Acts.
The case is pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
WARN ACT – CONTACT US
Generally, the WARN Act requires companies to provide their employees with 60 days’ written notice in advance of a mass layoff or plant closing. In the absence of such notice, employers may be liable to each affected employee for 60 days’ wages and benefits.
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