-By Warner Todd Huston
Despite millions if federal loans, last week luxury hybrid car maker Fisker Automotive fired 80% of its employees at its California-based company. But now those employees hired the same law firm that sued “green energy” company Solyndra to charge that Fisker violated state and federal laws with the layoffs.
On April 5, Breitbart reported that Fisker Automotive, Inc. laid off up to 80% of its employees due to a cascade of major errors and bad business decisions even though President Obama pumped millions in federal tax dollars via loan guarantees into the company starting in 2011.
Fisker’s employees were already on a two week furlough when upon coming back to work were told they would be laid off. Employees reported they had received no severance package but did receive pay for vacation time earned.
Now a class action lawsuit has been filed by Outten & Golden in a California district court. The suit claims that Fisker violated the law by not giving employees a 60-day notice that layoffs were coming, a violation, the suit claims, of the federal U.S. Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act and a similar state law.
Fisker had no comment on the lawsuit.
In 2012, Outten & Golden succeeded in getting bankrupted company Solyndra to pay fired employees a hefty $3.5 million settlement in a similar layoff case. Solyndra was yet another failed “green” company to which Obama gave millions in tax dollars.
As reported on April 5, Fisker will likely declare bankruptcy and close its doors for good.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, RightPundits.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, AmericanDaily.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.
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