Ex-Messenger Staffers Sue Shuttered News Site Over Mass Layoffs

The suit comes one day after the Jimmy Finkelstein-founded digital media start-up closed down and laid off 270 staffers without severance

Jimmy Finkelstein The Messenger
Jimmy Finkelstein, the founder and chief executive of The Messenger (YouTube/SemaforX)

Just one day after digital news start-up The Messenger was shuttered and 270 employees were laid off, now-former staffers filed a class-action lawsuit against their former employer on the grounds that they were not given proper notice. 

The lawsuit was filed on Thursday in the Southern District of New York and argues that the failure to give proper notice before ending their employment is a violation of the New York Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN).

The Daily Beast first reported the class-action suit against the Jimmy Finkelstein-founded start-up on Thursday. 

The lawsuit’s plaintiff is The Messenger senior producer Pilar Belendez-Desha, who is also representing the other staffers impacted by the unceremonious layoffs and shuttering of the media company on Wednesday.

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