Comments on: Major NE kosher meat distributor closes doors

By: Kosha Kid

Kosha Kid — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:58:38 +0000

I use to work for SWB in the wherehouse and I now have a job with anouther Kosha company and they are looking for people to hire. You guys can e-mail me you resume and I will give them to my boss Pete. Send to koshakid@aol.com Oh the company is out of Brooline. Happy Thanksgiveing
[moderated] Jake Berg peace out!

By: Jeff Sias

Jeff Sias — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:03:46 +0000

[moderated] If any of my sale guys need a job please e-mail me at jeffsias@yahoo.com
and I will try to help you guys out..Happy Holidays guys Jeff

By: Howard

Howard — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:40:07 +0000

It strikes me as unlikely that the WARN act was violated here. There are three exemptions to the 60 day notification rule, two of which could potentially apply (excerpted below):

“The exceptions to 60-day notice are:

(1) Faltering company. This exception, to be narrowly construed, covers situations where a company has sought new capital or business in order to stay open and where giving notice would ruin the opportunity to get the new capital or business, and applies only to plant closings;

(2) unforeseeable business circumstances. This exception applies to closings and layoffs that are caused by business circumstances that were not reasonably foreseeable at the time notice would otherwise have been required;”

Running out of money after a hoped-for deal fails to go through could potentially be seen as a faltering company situation (on its face, possibly a hard case given the wording of the rule) or unforseeable (certainly more plausible depending on the nature of the negotiations).

By: SF

SF — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:07:11 +0000

What a terrible way to treat people who were such loyal workers. They (SWB) will find some way around the fact that they BROKE THE LAW in not giving the legal amount of notice to workers.They will land on their feet unlike many of the people who worked there.Good luck to all the former employees.May you all find jobs where you will be respected and paid fairly for your hard work.

By: J

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 16:01:13 +0000

What wasn’t mentioned here was the sudden impact on 140 employees. Tuesday Oct 9 The closing was announced. On Wednesday, the office staff was laid off and on Thursday, as they arrived to work, the warehouse and driving staff were laid off. That was 24 hours notice for some and 48 hours notice for the rest. A clear violation of the Federal Workers Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. Their abrupt closing is being investigated by Senators Kerry and Kennedy as to if they violated the federal WARN Act.