“I’m going from around $1,100 a week on unemployment to $300 a week. How am I supposed to live on that? We got bamboozled into it … Everyone I know lost money.”
A shopper, inside one of the two New York Eataly stores. Photo: David Williams On April 23, Eataly North America executive vice-president Raffaele Piarulli sent an email to employees — “Eatalians,” as he calls them in the note — laying out some of the Italian grocery chain’s pandemic-related plans, since the company had secured loans from the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program.
The obvious problem, workers say, is that the choice only really allows for two bad options: Take the payment plan from Eataly and earn significantly less than they would under unemployment, or voluntarily resign and, in the process, likely forfeit any claims to unemployment benefits.
For example, one New York employee says she was initially offered $650 a week by Eataly, before it was increased by a couple hundred dollars: “They’re going to tax that and take benefits out of that,” she explains.
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