Sundance catalog will lay off 63 Utah workers when it “permanently” closes its Salt Lake City warehouse office space next month.
Sundance Living, the apparel and household decor catalog business, announced the layoffs in a letter sent to employees in late July. The Salt Lake Tribune obtained a copy of the letter in an open records request. It indicated the facility would close for good sometime between Sept. 21 and 30.
“As a result, your employment will be terminated at that time,” the letter read. It added there are no “bumping rights,” which can allow another more senior employee to displace a more junior employee to retain their job, according to a federal Employment and Training Administration guide.
Sundance announced the planned layoff to the Utah Department of Workforce Services as part of the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.
The act, typically abbreviated to WARN, requires that certain employers with more than 100 full-time workers give workers 60-days notice before a closing or mass layoff.
The workforce services department posts such notices on its website.
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The Sundance catalog layoff letter was dated just days after the company in late July announced it would close both its online and brick-and-mortar retail stores. The brand owned 16 stores across the country, including in Salt Lake City’s Sugar House neighborhood.
The letter indicates the 63 layoffs center around its warehouse facility at 2475 S. 3200 West in Salt Lake City. It’s unclear how employees working for the company in other Utah locations, likes it Salt Lake City store, have been impacted.
Sundance catalog CEO Laura Barrett did not immediately respond to The Tribune’s request for comment on Friday.
A spokesperson for the Utah Department of Workforce Services also declined to give additional information about the planned layoff, saying the letter “constitute[s] all of the information that we have from Sundance.”
These layoffs come after Sundance catalog has transferred its assets Corbin Liquidation LLC, which will sell the company’s remaining assets to pay off its millions in debt. Sundance had initially sought “additional financing or a purchaser of its business,” attorneys wrote in bankruptcy court filings earlier this summer, but transferred its assets when that didn’t work.
Sundance brought in Corbin Liquidation in late June, and then some of its creators pulled the company into bankruptcy proceedings July 2. Other artisans whose work was featured in the catalog had previously told The Tribune the company owed them millions, and shared concerns about what they considered a drop in the quality of its products.
The bankruptcy case remains pending. Sundance catalog’s representatives have until Sept. 8 to respond to the initial involuntary bankruptcy petition.