[User23]

Unless the law has changed, in California back pay is senior to everything except tax debt. And the company officers are personally liable for it.

It should work that way everywhere. Executives need to be incentivized to do layoffs while there’s still cash for it. Defrauding employees is a terrible evil.

[jefftk]

Have you seen anything suggesting the employees are not getting their final paychecks? All I've seen is them not getting severance.

[hinkley]

We didn’t get our final check. The class action suit went on for several years and the lawyers got all the money. I believe I was entitled to something less that $100 in the end and I declined.

[jefftk]

Are we still talking about Convoy?

[hinkley]

Nope, different school of hard knocks.

[cwilkes]

Slight twist on that here: most employees are in Seattle and WA state law doesn’t mandate paying out unused vacation time.

Most (good) employers do that when employees quit but they don’t have to.

[User23]

WA state law is really quite employer and landlord friendly.