Lawsuit filed against Foxtrot after stores closed
WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — A class action lawsuit filed in Illinois Wednesday accused Foxtrot, Dom’s Market and Outfox Hospitality of wrongful termination after all of the chains’ stores closed down suddenly nationwide.
The lawsuit accused the company of failing to provide a notice of a mass layoff or plant closing.
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The plaintiff was one of many employees who found themselves without a job Tuesday after Outfox Hospitality closed all 33 Foxtrot stores and two Dom’s Market stores in the U.S. According to the lawsuit, more than 1,000 employees were terminated as a result.
Eater Chicago reported Tuesday that “store workers were left in the dark” about the decision.
The lawsuit cited the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, which provides protections to employees in the case of plant closures or mass layoffs. Under the act, an employer needs to give its employees a 60-day notice before any closures or layoffs (with some exceptions).
The filed lawsuit said that Foxtrot and Dom’s employees were “terminated immediately without any prior notice.” The plaintiff, Jamil Moore, worked at a Chicago Foxtrot location. According to the lawsuit, he was terminated “in the middle of his shift” and “first learned of his termination during his shift and did not receive any prior notice from his employer in any way.”
Foxtrot operated 10 stores in the DMV — seven in D.C., one in Old Town Alexandria, Va., one in Rosslyn in Arlington, Va. and one in Bethesda, Md.
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