MAPLEWOOD, MO (KTVI - FOX2now.com) -
InkStop has abruptly closed its 164 stores and laid-off all 500 of its employees. There was not a bankruptcy filing and there was little notice the stores were closing. Employees say all of a sudden one day, they were without a job, without a paycheck and insurance, but they're not going away without a fight. There is still product on the shelves at the Maplewood InkStop store. It looks the same as the day former manager Jim Varagona was forced to leave it. "It was the end of a long day for me. My boss called me and said an hour before that he got on a conference call that the CEO said they were ending it."
There were clues, but the sudden stop hurt feelings and finances. Employees were notified by e-mail that they would not be paid for their final three-weeks on the job and their health insurance was not paid up.
Nearly two hundred former employees, including Varagona, have joined a class action lawsuit. "This is not a creative case. It's pretty straight forward. They performed the work they are entitled to pay both hourly and salaried employees."
The eviction notice on the door in Maplewood says InkStop owes the landlord $23,000.
There is no comment from the company.
There were clues, but the sudden stop hurt feelings and finances. Employees were notified by e-mail that they would not be paid for their final three-weeks on the job and their health insurance was not paid up.
Nearly two hundred former employees, including Varagona, have joined a class action lawsuit. "This is not a creative case. It's pretty straight forward. They performed the work they are entitled to pay both hourly and salaried employees."
The eviction notice on the door in Maplewood says InkStop owes the landlord $23,000.
There is no comment from the company.
