New Jersey Employment Lawyer Blog

A&P's recent bankruptcy filing will require the company to analyze its obligations under the "Millville Dallas Airmotive Plant Job Loss Notification Act" ("NJ WARN Act"), N.J.S.A. 34:21-1, et seq., a New Jersey employment law. Similar to the Federal Warn Act. New Jersey requires 60 days notice of a plant closing in certain circumstances. Employment Lawyers in NJ will have to determine the application of the Federal and State Laws to any layoffs in connection with the recent bankruptcy filing.

New Jersey employment lawyers confirm that the recent mass layoff by Charlie Brown's restaurants in New Jersey does not trigger the Federal Warn Act, nor does the layoff trigger New Jersey's Mini Warn Act, Employment lawyers for the employees believe there are gaps in the law that need to be filled. Both Acts state that the law is not triggered unless there are 50 or more full time employees at a facility. For now, the employees are out of luck. Perhaps the Legislature will listen to the New Jersey employment lawyers and amend the law.

I am happy to announce that my firm Krenkel & Krenkel, LLC, along with co-counsel, the Gardner Law Firm, Lankenau & Miller, LLP and Margolis Edelstein, recently settled a class action lawsuit for $475,000.00 against Foxtons, Inc., a discount real estate brokerage firm located in West Long Branch, New Jersey. The complaint was filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court and alleged that Foxtons terminated 350 employees without sufficient warning. The lawsuit alleged that Foxtons violated the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, 29 U.S.C. 2101, et seq. (WARN Act). In certain circumstances, the WARN Act requires an employer to give 60 days notice in advance of a plant shutdown or mass layoff.