Premiere Global, Laid-Off Workers Settle Severance Class Action

Virtual conferencing company Premiere Global Services Inc. plans to settle a class action claiming it failed to pay severance to workers terminated in a series of 2021 layoffs.

The parties reached a tentative agreement and plan to file the deal for court approval by Oct. 15, they said in a joint notice filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The notice didn’t include details about the terms of the agreement.

The lawsuit, filed last year by three former Premiere Global employees, accuses the company of agreeing to pay laid-off workers basic severance payments ...