WARN Act Liability for Celadon Trucking Affirmed

A transportation company that terminated a class of more than 400 workers within two weeks of purchasing their former employer is liable for damages under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth ruled (Day v. Celadon Trucking Servs., Inc., 2016 BL 214623, 8th Cir., No. 15-1711, 7/5/16).

WARN Act cases that reach the federal appellate level are few and far between. The only other appeals court WARN Act ruling this year came from the Sixth Circuit, which found in January that Vanderbilt University didn’t violate the law.

Here, Celadon ...