Foreclosure King Stern "Lives the Life of a “Oil Rich Sheik”

PLANTATION — Four former employees of the Law Firm of David J. Stern and its’ related foreclosure processing company — DJSP Enterprises, have filed a federal lawsuit claiming they were not given proper notice before being fired.

The employees allege Stern violated the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, or WARN, which mandates that employers give employees 60 days notice before being terminated.

Nikki Mack is one of the employees suing. She worked for Stern for 14 years rising from a receptionist to an office assistant. She was fired in October and was shocked when she saw a form email announcing that due to a lack of new business, she had been “selected to be part of the cutbacks.”

Mack said she left the office on the day of her firing in tears, without severance pay and only days left on her health insurance coverage. That is what really steams her.

Mack said Stern knew that suffered through cancer treatments for lymphoma for six months and yet he allowed her health insurance coverage to end.  “I worked all through the treatments, I feel hurt that this is happening,” Mack told CBS 4′s Carey Codd. “He knew the situation I was going through with my illness.”

“These employees didn’t do anything wrong,” said attorney Gary Farmer. “They were hard workers, showing up on time, doing their jobs and they were unceremoniously cut loose simply because David Stern — from the bridge of his yacht — decided he didn’t need them anymore because his profits were down.”