Toria Neal and other workers at United Furniture Industries were shocked this week when the company canned all 2,700 of them at once.
She was looking forward to a big family Thanksgiving when Toria Neal got a text that upended her life: the mother of four was losing her job, along with everyone else in her company.
The company violated federal law by failing to give 60 days’ notice before dissolving the operations, Neal has charged in a lawsuit.Neal has accused the company of violating federal law by not giving 60 days notice.United Furniture Industries/Face Neal’s lawyer, Casey Lott, of Booneville, Miss., said the mass firing coupled with the abrupt termination of benefits is not only shocking — but illegal. Lott was the first attorney to file a class action suit last week against the company. Several more have been filed since.The lawsuits are based on the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, which requires companies with more than 100 employees to give 60 days advance written notice before layoffs or shutting down.
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