NYC Four Seasons Employer Sheds Pandemic Layoff Claims

A New York City federal judge begrudgingly dismissed a class action claiming the company that manages hiring for the midtown Manhattan Four Seasons Hotel violated federal and state labor law by laying off workers without notice during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Three furloughed employees who sued Hotel 57 Services were unable to show that the companies’ failure to follow up on its “prior no-longer-fully-accurate” closure notices “caused specific economic loss to any already-furloughed employees, let alone to the entire class,” said US District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Jed S. Rakoff.

Rakoff made clear he wasn’t happy ...