Overseas Network, November 27. According to Fox News in the United States on November 26, a furniture company in Michigan, the United States, laid off about 2,700 employees before Thanksgiving, and notified them by sending text messages and emails to employees late at night.
United Furniture Industries laid off almost all of its employees on the 21st.
In a text message to employees, the company told employees not to come to work the next day and said all benefits would end immediately.
Many employees were asleep when the company sent the termination notice, and some didn't even see it before they went to work the next morning.
Truck drivers who were out making deliveries were told to return to the company immediately to hand over their vehicles.
Multiple employees and their relatives expressed outrage on social media.
A resident of North Carolina wrote on "Facebook": "It's so sad! At the beginning of the holiday, my 64-year-old brother received a text message about being fired!" Martin, an employee of the company, said: "I and many Colleagues have talked, we are all disappointed with this company, we have invested years of time and energy." Tolia Neal said that he will file a class action lawsuit against the company with two other colleagues.
(Li Fang from Overseas Network)