PHILADELPHIA — Jefferson Health, parent company of Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN), is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging the hospital system violated federal labor laws when it laid off hundreds of employees this fall without providing the required 60-day notice.
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, claims Jefferson failed to comply with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, or WARN Act, when it carried out systemwide layoffs affecting 1% of its 65,000 employees in October and November.
According to the complaint, the proposed lead plaintiff, Ciara Brice, was terminated Nov. 12 from her job as a medical assistant with no advance warning. Brice also has not received the severance pay she was promised, her attorney, Jeremy E. Abay of Philadelphia law firm Pond Lehocky Giordano Inc., said…