Weekes-Walker, et al. v. Macon County Greyhound Park, Inc., No. 12-14673 (11th Cir. 2013)
Annotate this CaseEmployees of MCGP filed suit under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act of 1988 (WARN Act), 29 U.S.C. 2101-2109, alleging that MCGP thrice violated the WARN Act's requirement that an employer provide employees 60-days' notice prior to a plant closing or mass layoff. The court affirmed the district court's classification of the February and August layoffs as plant closings; affirmed the district court's determination that MCGP was not entitled to invoke the unforeseeable business circumstances defense; and reversed in part and remanded so that the district court could properly determine whether the employees that MCGP laid off in January were "affected employees" as a result of the February plant closing under the WARN Act, and were thus entitled to notice.
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