Judge orders back pay, rehires for fired Jimmy John's organizers

Bravo! Brave workers, brave judge.

When we're right, we're united, and we hang tough... we win.

He threatened to leave Chicago over a tiny employee tax. The resounding silence shocked him.
Then again, he did poison 14 people here with bad product.

I do think the food tastes pretty good--when it isn't contaminated with salmonella infested alfalfa sprouts anyway. He's such a morally bankrupt repulsive individual that I can't bring myself to give him or his company a cent. He's vigorously fought against his employees' right to collective bargaining, he's posted photos on the internet of endangered animals he's hunted for sport, and he's a HUGE Republican. YUCK!!!

I can't stomach it.



Laura

Given the chance, every employer will do what's right for their employees and customers.

An Injury to One is an Injury to All

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understand employers who insist on employees coming in to work when they're sick, especially if they're in food service or other positions involving close customer contact. ESPECIALLY food service, you'd think the last thing they'd want is customers getting sick from their product.

I remember a past job many years ago when I was in the hospital with bacterial bronchitis and shortly after that I broke my wrist and had to have surgery on it. They actually wanted me to come into work even before I was released from the hospital, and were especially angry at the broken wrist. I had to sign an "absence warning" when I returned. If I hadn't needed the job so much, I would have told them right then and there where they could put their stupid fucking useless job and what they could do with it (and it was useless, really, it wasn't like the job was a critical social necessity or anything like that). NO job is worth your health or the health of others or is more important than your health or your family. NO. JOB. And this was a cube farm, so it was easy for employees to all catch each other's illnesses. Somehow, the PTB never seemed to grasp that very simple little fact.

It's natural to address disease at a social group level. They can't admit that, because their beliefs are supposed to be "natural". The facts ruin their framing, so they must be suppressed.

Way back when, I worked in retail. We had no sick days and were penalized for taking any time off. Coming to work with your nose dripping all over the place while trying to talk to customers is really awful.

are among the worst offenders when it comes to this issue, but I still just do not get that at all. From a purely practical business standpoint, if I'm an owner or manager, even if I don't give a pellet of rat shit about my employees, I'm not gonna want to infect or turn off my customers or make them ill. That's just not good business practice if you want to have a good reputation and stay in business. Because most people, if they see that an employee isn't well, aren't gonna want to patronize that business because the last thing they want is to get sick. I know that when I've encountered an employee at a retail or food business who was obviously sick (the most common being colds), I wanna get the hell away from that place and I sure as shit don't want them handling my food or money or merchandise I'm buying. There've been a couple times where I've actually talked to managers or owners and told them exactly what I thought of them forcing ill employees to work, both the inhumanity of it and the danger of it to customers and other employees and that I would not be patronizing them because of it.

So I just don't get it, from a business standpoint.

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and their precious ever-loving almight profits, which are affected by their reputation, which, in turn, is driven by customers. No customers equals no profits and no reputation, which then means no business.

Even when they see that they are obviously sick. It's idiotic.

Excellent news!

They are the only logical counterweight to the IMF and the World Bank.

Excellent work IWoW brothers and sisters.

and don't recall whether or not I had paid sick leave; I doubt it but it certainly would have been nice.

That being said, those workers shouldn't have been too surprised that they got fired, trashing your employer publicly will typically get you canned. I'm glad they got their jobs back, although I wonder what the work environment will be like now.

What's the standard on this? Do fast food workers typically get paid sick leave? I'm guessing no, which is why they're trying to unionize. I've never had a Jimmy Johns, although I've seen a couple around Houston. May have to try them out.

They were not allowed to call off. Not anymore.

Pretty freaking stupid of them.

I once went into a sandwich shop here in Houston where one woman was coughing and sneezing while making a sandwich and another was having a cigarette at a table right next to the counter while doing some paperwork. Very distatesful. Not surprisingly, they're out of business now.

enforced unless it gets media attention. You think that waitress would have got to keep her $12,000 tip if the local news had not picked up on it?

Refusing to enforce the law is rampant throughout America.

I thought most companies ended sick pay a long time ago by converting "vacation" to "paid time off" and then "allowing" you to use this paid time off for sick days.

The sick pay issue is not part of the case itself. Union activity was the case.

one place I worked, if you wanted paid for a holiday, you used PTO, even though the place was closed. I only worked there while I finished my degree and got the hell out.