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Clodfobble · 06-26-2007, 10:19 PM

Hey look! Remember this three-year-old thread about when I lost my job? Ah, good times, good times... but why, do you ask, would I bother to resurrect it?

Well, the wheels of the justice system turn ever so slowly. And we've just now heard some good news on the bankruptcy proceedings! They're hoping to finally start distributing funds to all the various creditors sometime around next January. That means I might finally get my unpaid wages from Sept. 2004, assuming there's enough money to cover the employees (which there should be, since legally we're first in line after taxes and court costs.)

AND, it turns out I might even get a little bonus: Texas has a law called the WARN Act, which basically says that if a workplace shuts down or lays off a majority of their employees, they must either give 60 days' severance pay, or 60 days' warning. Obviously my employer did neither, and a random law firm alerted us to this fact and offered to take the case for 30% of whatever they recovered for us. At the time we basically said, "Sure, knock yourselves out," and forgot about them. Well it turns out they stuck with it, and won, and there might actually be enough money leftover to cover some of the claim after all. So we've been told we'll probably be getting a little more than our owed wages, though no one knows how much for sure. Merry Christmas to me! (2007, or 2008, one of these years anyway...)

06-26-2007, 10:19 PM	#41
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	An unexpected surprise Hey look! Remember this three-year-old thread about when I lost my job? Ah, good times, good times... but why, do you ask, would I bother to resurrect it? Well, the wheels of the justice system turn ever so slowly. And we've just now heard some good news on the bankruptcy proceedings! They're hoping to finally start distributing funds to all the various creditors sometime around next January. That means I might finally get my unpaid wages from Sept. 2004, assuming there's enough money to cover the employees (which there should be, since legally we're first in line after taxes and court costs.) AND, it turns out I might even get a little bonus: Texas has a law called the WARN Act, which basically says that if a workplace shuts down or lays off a majority of their employees, they must either give 60 days' severance pay, or 60 days' warning. Obviously my employer did neither, and a random law firm alerted us to this fact and offered to take the case for 30% of whatever they recovered for us. At the time we basically said, "Sure, knock yourselves out," and forgot about them. Well it turns out they stuck with it, and won, and there might actually be enough money leftover to cover some of the claim after all. So we've been told we'll probably be getting a little more than our owed wages, though no one knows how much for sure. Merry Christmas to me! (2007, or 2008, one of these years anyway...)