Staffers at Everlane believe that the company is using a global health pandemic as an excuse to gut their labor union
, reductions to the team included 42 of the 57 members of the remote customer experience team and 180 part-time retail employees, with an additional 68 full-time retail employees told that their jobs had been “furloughed.” The layoffs came just four days after, who were working with the Communications Workers of America in late December of 2019, asked the company's management team to recognize them.
Despite Preysman’s characterization of the need for layoffs as being an urgent and unexpected development, workers say that company managers had stressed that they werein the days and weeks leading up to those terminations, though Everlane representatives say that the number of store closures and drop in sales made these cuts imminent for the company's survival.
In a statement provided to Refinery29, Everlane assured that the layoffs were not based on any unionizing efforts, but had"everything to do with the dramatic impact COVID-19 has had on the global economy." "COVID-19 has dramatically impacted the entire world, and Everlane is no exception. Our retail stores closed indefinitely and total revenue is off our original plan by 25%. This impact on our business put us in a position where we had to let go of 290 talented people across the company, 14% of which were on our customer experience team," the statement read.
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