Market Basket Cuts Off Pay to Protesters; Fired Workers Plan Lawsuit
Some senior-level employees at Market Basket have received a letter saying they will not be paid for the month of August if they do not show up to work on Monday, The Boston Globe reports.
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Read the full Globe report, including the full letter, here.
Thornton and Gooch have asked employees to return to work by Monday, a notion that would mostly target workers at the company’s Tewksbury headquarters and its warehouses, as most store employees and managers have still been reporting for their shifts throughout recent events. The CEOs have said employees can return to work without being penalized for their participation in ongoing protests against the firing of former CEO Arthur T. Demoulas, who is attempting to buy the company.
Job fairs for management positions are scheduled for next week.
On Thursday, the attorneys general of both Massachusetts and New Hampshire sent a letter to the CEOs, reminding them of the states’ employment laws, particularly with regard to wages owed to fired employees.
A group of management-level employees who were fired on July 20 are claiming they were wrongfully terminated, in part because they were not given “a full accounting of their vested profit sharing plan(s),’’ according to a letter sent to the CEOs by an attorney for the employees that signaled legal action.
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