A former instructor for a Needham-based prenatal and parenting retailer that abruptly shut down this year is suing the company for allegedly failing to give proper notification to employees and for back pay.
Nancy Gair, who worked for Isis Parenting since 2007, has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging the 11-year-old company, which had a devoted following, didn't adequately warn employees that they would be laid off or pay prenatal and parenting class instructors for the time spent setting up and breaking down classes.
Isis Parenting announced Jan. 14 that it was ending its classes — without prior warning to employees or customers — and would close its four stores, which were shuttered by Jan. 27.
In addition to the compensation for an estimated 100 class instructors, the lawsuit seeks 60 days of back pay for approximately 200 Isis employees.
"Far from seeking any sort of windfall, (Gair) — on the behalf of former employees — is simply trying to recover the wages and compensation due to them as a matter of law," said Nicholas J. Rosenberg, Gair's Boston attorney. "We believe the named defendants had the requisite involvement and control over the operations of Isis and are responsible for the employee damages."
Filed in U.S. District Court in Boston, the suit also names as defendants former Isis Parenting CFO Peter Delahunt, and former director Mark Schwartz and his Hub investment firm, Palladin Consumer Retail Partners. Delahunt couldn't be reached; Schwartz declined comment.
Court documents allege Isis Parenting failed to give proper employee notice under the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, which generally requires certain employers to provide 60 days' notice before layoffs.
"The WARN Act is designed to ensure that when a company is shut down and terminates a large number of employees, that the employees have ample notice so that they can get unemployment and job transition assistance, make financial arrangements, look for new work, etc.," Rosenberg said. "The Isis employees here didn't have that chance."
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