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Promo Products Maker Must Face COVID-19 Layoff Notice Suit

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By Nathan Hale (March 18, 2022, 6:05 PM EDT) — A Florida federal judge has rejected a bid by one of the largest suppliers of promotional products to invoke a natural disasters exception to avoid an employee’s proposed class suit alleging sudden layoffs spurred by the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic violated the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.

Tampa-based U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington of the Middle District of Florida said in her order Thursday that she was deferring to the U.S. secretary of labor’s determination that the WARN Act’s natural disaster exception requires direct causation in concluding that she should deny the motion to dismiss from…

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