Foxtrot and Dom's workers sue companies over abrupt store closures, layoffs

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The lawsuit claims workers were not given the 60 days' notice of mass layoffs required by state and federal law.

CHICAGO -- Former workers at Foxtrot Market and Dom's Kitchen & Market sued the stores' parent company on Wednesday, following the groceries' abrupt closures, accusing management of failing to give employees the required notice of layoffs or proper severance pay.

Monica Perez, who worked at the Dom's store in Lincoln Park, said she and her coworkers learned of the closings when they showed up at work on Tuesday.'We just got here, and apparently everything is closing,' she said, 'so a lot of people — everyone here — are out of work now.'Perez and her coworkers reminisced Tuesday afternoon outside the Dom's store in Lincoln Park.

 

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