Los Angeles employment lawyers can add a class-action employment complaint to the current litigious climate surrounding solar energy company, Solyndra. A former employee of the company has filed a class-action complaint, alleging that the company did not provide employees notice that it was shutting down operations.

Earlier this month, the company, which had been touted as a shining example of the future of the solar energy industry the United States, announced that it was ceasing operations and filing for bankruptcy. That decision came as a shock to its employees. Last week, the company officially filed for bankruptcy. According to the company, it is $784 million in debt.

When the company filed for bankruptcy, 1,100 people at the company lost their jobs. An engineer at the company, who lost his job when Solyndra filed for bankruptcy, has now filed a class-action complaint in the U.S. District Court in Northern California.

The plaintiff had worked for the company for 4 ½ years as an engineer in the product development group. According to the complaint, the company should have given its employees 60 days notice before giving them their walking papers. It failed to do that. Instead, it let its employees go immediately, with no advance warning. While employees say that they had been aware of the troubles at the company, the decision to file for bankruptcy was immediate and shocking.

The complaint currently involves more than 100 former Solyndra employees. The lawsuit demands that the company pay its former employees 60 days of wages and benefits. His lawsuit also alleges that the company withheld hundreds of hours worth of vacation pay that he had accumulated over the years.