(Radio Iowa) – A federal judge has given final approval to a settlement for employees who lost their jobs when the Flexsteel plant in Dubuque closed in 2020. Employees who worked at Flexsteel facilities in Dubuque and Mississippi filed a class action lawsuit against the company last year. It claimed Flexsteel used the pandemic as an excuse to immediately close the plants and deny severance pay to laid off employees and the company failed to give a 60 day notice of the layoffs.

A federal judge has approved a settlement of nearly one-point-three million dollars that will provide payments to about 300 former Flexsteel workers. The payments will range from at least one-thousand up to 15-thousand dollars and are based on how long the employee worked at Flexsteel and how much they were paid.