Corsa Coal faces potential lawsuit for failing to notify of layoffs soon enough
SOMERSET COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ)– Corsa Coal Corp. has provided employees with an official notice of the company's plan to layoff 332 employees in Somerset County.
The layoffs are expected to be effective this Friday across the ten locations the company has in Somerset County. A Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) announcement from the company's wholly owned subsidiary Wilson Creek Energy was posted on the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry's website. The notice was issued March 13.
The announcement comes after the company filed for bankruptcy in January. The WARN Act requires most businesses with 100 or more employees to provide a 60 day calendar notice when mass layoffs will occur. A Chicago based class action law firm, Strauss Borrelli announced on its website that it will be investigating the layoffs and whether or not the company failed to provide at least a 60 day notice to the layoffs.
There are some exceptions to the WARN Act and it is unclear whether or not Corsa Coal is required to have provided the 60 day notice.
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