Ex-Staff at The Messenger File Class-Action Lawsuit Against Shuttered Website

Just a day after troubled digital news outlet The Messenger shuttered and hundreds of its journalists were unceremoniously fired, ex-staffers of the short-lived website filed a class-action lawsuit against their former employer.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in New York, alleges that The Messenger failed to give its 300-plus employees proper notice ahead of their firing—an alleged violation of the New York Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.

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