Classic Party Rentals, One Other Hit with WARN Act Class Action After July Layoffs

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An individual formerly employed as a distribution supervisor by CP Opco, LLC, which does business as Classic Party Rentals, and its human resources handler Insperity Peo Services, L.P. claims the companies violated the federal and California’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) by failing to provide employees with at least 60 days’ notice before a mass layoff on July 11, 2017. The lawsuit notes the defendants employed more than 100 full-time workers around the time of the mass firing. At its Burlingame, California location, where the plaintiff was employed, the defendants employed roughly 135 workers, the case continues.

The plaintiff claims that before Classic Party Rentals was sold to Bright Event Rentals, LLC, the Burlingame location’s general manager assured him that his job was not at risk. What transpired, the case says, was the opposite. From the lawsuit: