Legal Opinion
Calixto v. Coughlin
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 28, 2018No. SJC 12515PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKafker, J.
**158 The primary issue presented is the interplay, if any, between two employee protection statutes: G. L. c. 149, § 148 (Wage Act), and the Federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 2101 - 2109 (2018) (WARN Act). The defendant corporate officers (officers) 4 directed ISIS Parenting, Inc. (company), where the plaintiff employees (employees) worked until it abruptly ceased operations and terminated its entire workforce. Alleging a WARN Act violation for failure to provide them with sixty days' advance notice of the company's shutdown, the employees brought a…
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