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Toys R Us’ bankruptcy: 33,000 laid-off workers get $60 severence pay each while lawyers get $56 million in fees
A bankruptcy judge on Thursday approved the settlement to a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of 33,000 former Toys R Us workers, a figure that means each will receive about $60. Earlier estimates had workers entitled to $75 million in severance after the retailer closed its more than 700 U.S. stores last year.
“We feel employees should be taken care of first, a lot of employees had been there 30 years,” said Perez, a 29-year-old mother of two, ages 6 and 4. “It shows how little employees are valued. Many of us still don’t have jobs.”
Out of work for the past year, Perez said she is relying on family, friends and public assistance to get by. “It’s terrifying. I was working full time, and have been looking since then,” she said. In hunting for another job, Perez is trying to avoid retail, pointing to other bankruptcies in the industry. “Look at Shopko, Kmart and Sears, the same thing is happening to them that happened to us.”
