According to the notice of layoffs, the cuts will take place from April 4 to April 14.
Teachers have accused Mr. Taveras of trying to bypass seniority rules by sending termination notices instead of layoff warnings.
The Federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act requires companies to give 60-days notice of impending layoffs to the affected workers, the local government and the responsible state agency.
Two employees, including one who taught in California, filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging that the company violated federal law by not giving 60 days' notice of the layoffs.
To comply with labor law requiring advance notice of mass layoffs, American Apparel had previously warned workers in three local production facilities — 332 in Garden Grove, 959 in South Gate and 2,166 at the company's headquarters in downtown Los Angeles — of potential layoffs on Jan . 7..
Angry employees already have filed suit accusing Fresh & Easy of violating state rules that require at least 60 days' notice for layoffs.
And notices of potential layoffs may have to be sent, even if the layoffs are unlikely to occur.
In their complaints, filed in federal bankruptcy court in Manhattan, the plaintiffs accused MF Global of not following the terms of a federal law that requires a company to provide 60 days' written notice of upcoming mass layoffs.
We've heard that the company's legal team is hammering out the paperwork that will need to be submitted to the state of California under the WARN act, which requires large companies to give advance notice of any major layoffs.
Statewide, nearly 22,000 teachers have received notices of potential layoffs.
But they declared a state of financial emergency earlier this year, and sent notices of potential layoffs to all of its 900 employees last month.
