Wallace v. Detroit Coke Corp.

OPINION

GILMORE, District Judge.

In these two eases, Plaintiffs claim that Defendants violated the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (hereinafter “WARN Act”), 29 U.S.C. § 2101 et seq., which requires that all employees of a company with at least 100 employees be provided 60 days or more written notice in the event of a plant closing or mass layoff. Plaintiffs, comprising both union and non-union workers, allege that Defendant Detroit Coke Corporation closed its coke production facility on September 12, 1991, giving them notice only two hours or less before closing. Plaintiffs…