Spirit Airlines, the No. 3 commercial air carrier serving Harry Reid International Airport, plans to furlough 393 Las Vegas-based flight attendants.
In a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notice filed with the state of Nevada, Nick Bartolotta, senior vice president of guest experience and crew operations at the Florida-based airline, said the furloughs — expected to be a temporary reduction of the work force — could begin Dec. 1 or within 14 days of that date.
The WARN Act, a federal law, requires employers with more than 100 full-time workers to provide 60 days’ advance written notice of a pending shutdown or layoff. Notice must be made to affected employees or their union representatives and to the state’s dislocated worker unit, which is the Department of Employment, T