CARRASQUILLO-ORTIZ v. AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC.

No. 15-1424.

812 F.3d 195 (2016)

Elizabeth CARRASQUILLO-ORTIZ; Carmen Guzmán-Vázquez; Daniel Ouviña; Víctor Rivera; Matilde Rodríguez-Noa; Brenda Enid Vázquez-Díaz; Fred Voltaggio-De Jesús, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC., Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

January 22, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfredo Fernández-Martínez , with whom Delgado & Fernández, LLC, was on brief, for appellants.

Juan Enjamio , with whom Hunton & Williams LLP was on brief, for appellee.

Before THOMPSON, HAWKINS, and BARRON, Circuit Judges.


Article 3 of Puerto Rico's Law No. 80 ("Law 80") requires companies that operate in Puerto Rico to pay a statutory severance, called a "mesada," to their employees in Puerto Rico who are terminated as part of a downsizing or restructuring. The mesada must be paid only if those employees were terminated even though less senior...

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