A former employee of Midwest Transport Inc. has filed a WARN Act lawsuit, alleging the trucking company failed to give a 60-day notice of a planned shutdown before laying off 650 employees, including 480 truck drivers.
UFI abruptly shuttered in November. Companies have been unable to retrieve their assets from the closed-up facilities.
A former Central Freight Lines employee claims the Waco,Texas-based less-than-truckload carrier violated federal law by failing to give 60 days’ notice of its planned shutdown to nearly 2,100 employees and truck drivers, who found themselves without jobs two weeks before Christmas
Several trucking and logistics companies are collectively owed hundreds of thousands of dollars after Consolidated Glass Holdings Inc. and its subsidiaries — J.E. Berkowitz, Shaw Glass Holdings and Columbia Commercial Building Products — shuttered operations and filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy in mid-July.
