Mass Avon Layoffs Trigger Lawsuit Over Alleged Failure to Warn Employees

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A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed against Avon Products, Inc.; New Avon, LLC; and Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. over the companies’ alleged failure to warn employees of a mass layoff at the defendants’ Orlando location and other sites. According to the complaint, the defendants terminated more than 950 employees – at least 33 percent of their workforce – beginning in January 2017 and ending in June of the same year. The case alleges that under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN), workers should have been provided with 60 days’ notice of the layoffs. According to the case, the defendants reportedly didn’t announce their “operational restructuring” until after they began terminating employees.

“Defendants had plenty of advance opportunity to provide notice to Plaintiff and [proposed class members] of the potential for mass layoffs and/or terminations, and instead willfully chose to remain silent in violation of the WARN Act,” the complaint reads.

The plaintiff charges that she and other terminated employees are owed “unpaid wages, salary, commissions, bonuses, accrued holiday pay, accrued vacation pay, all accrued paid time off, pension and 401(k) contributions and other COBRA benefits, for 60 days, that would have been covered and paid under the then-applicable employee benefit plans had that coverage continued for that period.”