Casino Buffet Workers Revive Mass-Layoff Notice Suit on Appeal

Bloomberg report

Workers laid off from a buffet attached to a Genting New York LLC casino can try again to show that they didn’t receive proper notice before they lost their jobs.

A reasonable factfinder could have determined that the buffet functioned as a protected operating unit under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, so “neither side is entitled to summary judgment,” the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said Monday.

Nearly 180 people lost their jobs when Genting, which does business as Resorts World Casino, shut down a buffet within its casino the same day it announced the …

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