awful news for families heading into the holiday season
United Furniture laid off entire workforce
United Furniture has terminated all employees. Workers learned of the news overnight via electronic message.
www.wtva.com
Not sure that applies since the entire company closed and reportably due to not being able to obtain capital.Sounds like a WARN act violation to me.........In mass layoff situations you're supposed to give a minimum of 60 days notice.........That didn't happen here........
Man.. they still have the “now hiring” sign out front of the one in Belden. Talk about a swing from one day to the next. Interviews one day, shut down the next.awful news for families heading into the holiday season
United Furniture laid off entire workforce
United Furniture has terminated all employees. Workers learned of the news overnight via electronic message.www.wtva.com
Yes, it sounds like the whole thing went under. No benefits for employees starting today either.Not sure that applies since the entire company closed and reportably due to not being able to obtain capital.
Sounds like a WARN act violation to me.........In mass layoff situations you're supposed to give a minimum of 60 days notice.........That didn't happen here........
Doubtful. Someone will buy the Lane name but that wasn't Lane Furniture, United Furniture bought the name several years ago. United and Ashley aren't really competitors. Very different clients and business models.I wonder if Ashley will buy any of their assets?
Think this has been in the making for quite some time. They had asked for terms extensions from vendors which raised flags. There are also rumors of a material financial statement issue. I doubt this is the end of the story.
They probably had exposure to some floating rate debt, or else needed to roll over some fixed rate date coming to term and couldn't make it with the new interest rates. Kind of surprising you aren't seeing more layoffs already from leveraged companies seeing their cost of debt explode.