Former Spring Air employee sues company
Claims it failed to provide notice of shutdown
Larry Thomas -- Furniture Today, May 12, 2009
TAMPA, Fla. — A former employee of the shuttered Spring Air mattress factory here has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court accusing the bedding producer of violating federal law by failing to provide 60 days notice of the factory shutdown.
In the suit, former employee Jared Azzata claims the company violated the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, and should pay employees 60 days' worth of wages and benefits.
Azzata is seeking to have the case certified as a class action suit, which would allow former employees at all the shuttered factories to join him as plaintiffs.
The bedding producer unexpectedly closed its nine corporate-owned factories last week after a proposed management buyout deal collapsed — a move that put an estimated 800 to 1,000 people out of work and sent retailers scrambling to replace scheduled Spring Air shipments.
Three independent Spring Air licensees in the United States and two in Canada remain in business, however.
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