At six in the morning on April 15, Nathan DeGray received an email: “Due to the macroeconomic challenges facing the residential solar industry, Freedom Forever has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy,” it read. “Unfortunately, effective today, all employee positions are furloughed unless you receive direct communication…indicating otherwise.”
Until that moment, DeGray had worked in Connecticut as a warehouse coordinator for the residential solar installer Freedom Forever. The following day, another email informed him that the payment he was due for hours he had already worked was delayed until further notice: “Currently, there is no ETA.”
And two weeks later, just after midnight on May 1, a third…