A former employee of the ATA Airlines filed a class-action lawsuit for back pay when the carrier filed bankruptcy and ceased operations
The said employee was fired last April 3, 2008.
The class action was filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court by former ATA employee Kevin Batman. He claims that ATA violated federal law by terminating more than 1,000 workers without giving a 60-day written notice.
ATA employed approximately 2,300 workers including 560 in Indianapolis who seek wages, commissions, salary, bonuses, health insurance and other benefits.
Kevin Batman is represented by James Kowalik and Jeffrey Hokanson of the Indianapolis law firm of Hostetler & Kowalik P.C..
Global Aero Logistics Inc. owns ATA and is not affected by the bankruptcy filing. Its headquarters moved last fall from Indianapolis to Peachtree City, Ga. Global Aero is majority-owned by New York-based MatlinPatterson Global Advisers LLC, which purchased ATA out of bankruptcy two years ago.