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"Yesterday, Fisker laid off 160 employees, including its entire PR team, with no advance notice. Today, Automotive News reports that the beleaguered green-car manufacturer was promptly slapped with a federal lawsuit. The suit, brought by former employee Sven Etzelsberger, says that the firings violated the U.S. Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN), which requires firms to furnish workers with a 60-day advance notice before mass firings, as well as several California statutes. It also says that in violating WARN, Fisker denied affected workers the wages they would have earned in those 60 days. The suit seeks class action status and assorted damages. In a particularly bad omen for Fisker, the law firm that brought the suit against the automaker won a similar case against the poster child for green-company debacles, Solyndra. Fisker retained its executive team in the hopes that it will be able to find new investors to guide it out of the wilderness. We&amp;#039;re not optimistic. You can read more details at Automotive News. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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