A former employee has filed a class-action lawsuit against the owners of The Sky Room, alleging workers weren’t given the legally required notice when the famed rooftop restaurant closed earlier this year.

In the lawsuit, ex-employee Mauricio Rodriguez alleges The Sky Room’s supervising chef told him he was about to lose his jobs only two days before the Downtown bar and restaurant shut down on April 29.

Rodriguez also accuses The Sky Room management of coercing employees into skipping mealtimes and breaks.

The lawsuit doesn’t say what job Rodriguez did at The Sky Room, and his attorneys didn’t immediately return a voicemail and email.

The Sky Room’s owners disputed the accusations but declined to go into any further detail.

The lawsuit was filed in Long Beach Superior Court on Oct. 17. It asks for unspecified damages against The Sky Room’s parent company Long Beach Restaurant Associates.

Rodriguez is the only employee named in the lawsuit, but he asks that the action be opened up to other similarly situated ex-employees.

The Sky Room closed in April after decades at the historic Breakers building in Downtown.

The restaurant’s owners, Jonathan and Bernard Rosenson, announced the closure after the local investment company Pacific6 bought the building with plans to renovate and reopen it as a hotel. (The Long Beach Post’s parent company is owned by Pacific6.)

The closure made headlines in mid April. The Sky Room announced the decision on its Facebook page and website as early as April 13.

But Rodriguez’s lawsuit claims the company didn’t inform employees until days later and ran afoul of labor laws, which require employers as large as The Sky Room to give at least 60 days notice about mass layoffs or relocations.

The Sky Room’s parent company employed at least 75 people, according to the lawsuit.

When informed of the lawsuit, Jonathan Rosenson said he hadn’t seen the document yet, but took issue with Rodriguez’s characterization of what happened.

“I really can’t comment,” he said.