in Newswire Published on May 25, 2022

The O’Gara Group Failed to Provide Mandatory Notice Prior to March 2022 Layoffs, Class Action Claims

Metz v. The O’Gara Group, Inc.

Filed: May 24, 2022 ◆§ 1:22-cv-00286

The O’Gara Group faces a class action that alleges the armored vehicle maker violated federal law by failing to provide at least 60 days’ advance notice prior to a mass layoff in March 2022.

Defendant(s)

The O’Gara Group, Inc.

Law(s)

WARN Act

State(s)

Ohio

Categories

Wage and Hour

The O’Gara Group faces a proposed class action that alleges the armored vehicle manufacturer violated federal law by failing to provide at least 60 days’ advance notice prior to a mass layoff in March 2022.

The 10-page case claims that the Ohio-based military contractor ran afoul of the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act by failing to provide the statutory advanced notice prior to the layoff and 60 days’ wages and benefits to the more than 200 employees who were terminated.

According to news reports, O’Gara stated in a WARN notice submitted to the state that the layoffs stemmed from a lack of operating capital needed to continue to make payroll. Per Cincinnati.com, the company is known for customizing the Lincoln X-100 convertible in which President John F. Kennedy was riding when he was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963.

Per the lawsuit, the O’Gara Group also failed to pay the plaintiff and similarly situated employees their respective wages, salaries, commissions, bonuses, accrued holiday pay and accrued vacation pay for 60 calendar days following their respective terminations, and failed to make retirement plan contributions and provide health insurance for that same time period.

The O’Gara Group is subject to the WARN Act because the company employed more than 200 workers who, in aggregate, worked at least 8,000 hours per week, exclusive of overtime, the case states. The law also applies in that the mass layoff resulted in the loss of employment for at least 50 people, as well as 33 percent of the company’s workforce, according to the suit.

The lawsuit looks to represent all former O’Gara Group employees who worked at the company’s facilities and were terminated without cause on March 3, 2022, or within 30 days of that date, or who were terminated without cause as the reasonably foreseeable consequence of the mass layoff or plant closing ordered by the O’Gara Group on or about March 3, 2022.

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