All of the 2,700 workers at a US furniture company were fired at midnight two days before Thanksgiving, according to multiple reports.
United Furniture Industries’ texted or emailed those terminated while they were sleeping, telling them not to come to work the next day. The move affected truck drivers and factory workers in California, Mississippi and North Carolina.
“At the instruction of the board of directors … we regret to inform you that due to unforeseen business circumstances, the company has been forced to make the difficult decision to terminate the employment of all its employees, effective immediately, on Nov. 21,” the company said in messages to employees, according to the report from the New York Post. Workers’ benefits were also cut abruptly.
