Case: Individual Employment Rights/WARN Act (N.D.Cal.)

A federal court in California grants preliminary approval of a class action settlement on behalf of employees of Classic Party Rentals, an event rental company acquired by Bright Event Rentals, LLC, who were dismissed without written notice pursuant to a mass layoff in violation of the WARN Act and California law, but the court denies a motion by a consulting firm that operated Classic’s human resources department to preemptively deny certification of a part of the class alleged in the complaint, but not included in the class definition in the settlement agreement. The case is McDonald v. CP OpCo, LLC, 2019 BL 27200, N.D. Cal., No. 17-cv-04915-HSG, 1/28/19