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A former employee who accused Shop-Vac Corp. of violating the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act has agreed to a settlement with one of the companies named as a defendant, according to PennLive.com.
On Friday, Candice Gair and the company, now using the name SV Wind-Down Corp., jointly asked U.S. Middle District Judge Matthew W. Brann to dismiss Shop-Vac from her suit. According to PennLive, the filing noted the other defendant, GreatStar Tools USA, does not concur with the motion.
Approximately 425 workers were cut when the family-owned Shop-Vac shut down the Williamsport plant in September of 2020. GreatStar bought the assets three months later.
After filing the lawsuit, Gair amended it to include GreatStar, a subsidiary of Hangzhous GreatStar Industrial Co. GreatStar argues it is not a legal successor to the first defendant, who had claimed it was not required to give the 60 days' notice of the terminations required by the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act because it was a "faltering company" and the layoffs were caused by "unforeseeable business circumstances," specifically the COVID-19 pandemic, PennLive reported.
Details regarding the settlement between Gair and SV Wind-Down were not disclosed, PennLive noted.