VANDALIA, Ohio -- The end of the year brings more bad news for more than 200 workers in the Miami Valley.

The Mazer Corporation and Eftec in Vandalia are closing.

Two hundred people who worked at the Mazer Corporation found out by e-mail Tuesday evening, and employees at EFTEC found out through a letter.

Scott Bent, a laid-off worker, said, “We didn’t know our company was closing and we certainly didn’t expect to happen at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday.”

Bent, a father of two, came back to Mazer Corporation Wednesday to clean out his desk after his company executives told him he lost his job in an e-mail.

Leaders at the Montgomery County job bank said federal law requires companies that meet certain guidelines to give employees 60 days notice if they’re going lose their jobs.

Many employees wonder if their layoffs were announced legally; people like Bent have more pressing worries, like keeping his family afloat.

EFTEC said they are hopeful that it can relocate some of those laid-off workers to its facility in Michigan.

Federal law said an employee must sue in federal court if he or she feels a company violated the Warn Act.