As the high-end retailer Barneys goes through liquidation, employees at its flagship store say that they haven’t received information about a closing date, severance pay or benefits, the New York Times reported. Paychecks were delayed this month after what a company email said was a “cyber incident,” further stressing employees, who don’t know if their personal information was compromised. Many of the concerns were detailed in a letter filed on Tuesday to the judge overseeing the bankruptcy case from employees who have worked at Barneys for more than 20 years. The letter said that the liquidation firm, Barneys’s remaining management and the workers’ union had been unable to answer their inquiries for a month. Barneys responded in a separate filing, and said it had only about $2 million to pay $4 million in severance obligations. Of that, $800,000 has already been paid out. While the $2 million was negotiated when Barneys was sold, the shortfall was not disclosed in public court filings.
