A longtime company in East Alabama abruptly closed. Legacy Cabinets in Eastaboga suddenly shut down its facility. A class action law firm is investigating whether the layoffs violated the federal WARN Act, which lays out the requirements businesses must follow to notify their employees that the business is closing. We reached out to the company but have not heard back. Workers are venting on social media, upset about not getting any notice of the closure.On Friday, the nearly 500 workers at Legacy Cabinets went home from work with no idea they no longer had a job. The company emailed them on Saturday to tell them Legacy was shutting down.Donnie Miller is the director of the Chamber of Commerce of Talladega, Lincoln and Munford.“It was kind of a surprising situation. I didn’t find out about it until Monday morning,” Miller said. Miller said the news hit him hard, realizing how many people in the region would be impacted.“I’m sure that some people that were looking toward building a new house or planning to get married or planning to do something that now has kind of thwarted their ideas of what they wanted to do,” Miller said. According to Miller, Legacy was one of the largest employers in the area. And just last month, the Domtar pulp mill in nearby Childersburg shut down, impacting almost 300 workers.Miller said, “They did give a 90-day warning to their employees. It was closing and they paid up to 90 days to them. So, it was a little different. But now we don’t know the full story and what Legacy is going to do either.” To help impacted workers, several area Chambers along with the Talladega County Economic Development Authority and Workforce of Alabama are holding a job fair Wednesday, June 17, at the International Motorsports Hall of Fame from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. “These jobs, they’re available out there. It’s just finding the right one to come to. We want to be there to help them out in any way we possibly can,” Miller said.
A longtime company in East Alabama abruptly closed. Legacy Cabinets in Eastaboga suddenly shut down its facility. A class action law firm is investigating whether the layoffs violated the federal WARN Act, which lays out the requirements businesses must follow to notify their employees that the business is closing.
We reached out to the company but have not heard back. Workers are venting on social media, upset about not getting any notice of the closure.
On Friday, the nearly 500 workers at Legacy Cabinets went home from work with no idea they no longer had a job. The company emailed them on Saturday to tell them Legacy was shutting down.
Donnie Miller is the director of the Chamber of Commerce of Talladega, Lincoln and Munford.
“It was kind of a surprising situation. I didn’t find out about it until Monday morning,” Miller said.
Miller said the news hit him hard, realizing how many people in the region would be impacted.
“I’m sure that some people that were looking toward building a new house or planning to get married or planning to do something that now has kind of thwarted their ideas of what they wanted to do,” Miller said.
According to Miller, Legacy was one of the largest employers in the area. And just last month, the Domtar pulp mill in nearby Childersburg shut down, impacting almost 300 workers.
Miller said, “They did give a 90-day warning to their employees. It was closing and they paid up to 90 days to them. So, it was a little different. But now we don’t know the full story and what Legacy is going to do either.”
To help impacted workers, several area Chambers along with the Talladega County Economic Development Authority and Workforce of Alabama are holding a job fair Wednesday, June 17, at the International Motorsports Hall of Fame from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
“These jobs, they’re available out there. It’s just finding the right one to come to. We want to be there to help them out in any way we possibly can,” Miller said.