Jimmy Johns Being Sued by Former Employees (illegal donations 2 Sheriff Joe Arpaio hunting endangere

[Omaha Steve]

http://guardianlv.com/2014/10/jimmy-johns-being-sued-by-former-employees/

Added by Kristi Cereska on October 20, 2014.




Jimmy Johns has been in the news a lot in the last few years, and this time it is due to a lawsuit that is taking the fast food chain to court by its former employees. It seems that the food conglomerate makes all employees sign a non-competition form that forbids them from working for any other sandwich shop for two years. This includes their lowest wage earners, the makers of the sandwiches and the “freaky fast” delivery drivers.

Many are familiar with this type of clause, but most are managers or persons with intimate knowledge into the actual business side of a company. This radical across the board signing of the non-competition form forbids employees from working in any place of business that has pretty much any type of sandwich, from subs to rolled or wrapped sandwiches for two years. This is a tough spot for the thousands of teens and young adults that enter the work place, only to find that in their geographical area, the easiest job to get, is at a sandwich shop. Many of these kids are not yet driving and their logistical area for employment is minimal.

One such student that left Jimmy Johns was prevented from working anywhere in the Tuscaloosa Ala. area, as all the local shops fall into the parameters of the Jimmy Johns non-competition guidelines. The sandwich company is no stranger to being embroiled in legal battles with their employees, as some are fighting to get union representation while others are in a fight with what was deemed unfair in their labor practices.



Jimmy JohnsThe owner of Jimmy Johns is a big game hunter who has been under fire for the photos he posts with his kills, and for providing funds that are suspect to a sheriffs association, which some are claiming keeps him from getting into trouble for some of his hunting that involves endangered species. Jimmy John Liautaud has also been called by many in the media as a “right winged nut,” citing his involvement in the scandal around anti-immigration advocate Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona. They state that the fast food giant donated as much as $10,000 in 2008, and in spite of the scandal that followed he did not come under any investigation of the donated funds.

FULL story at link.


And this: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Lawsuit-Jimmy-John-s-bars-employees-from-working-5824918.php

Liautaud has been criticized for hunting big game, Raw Story reported, and donating funds to an allegedly illegal re-election fund for controversial Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona.

Photos published by Smile Politely show Liautaud posing with two dead elephants and a dead leopard shot and killed while on a safari facilitated by Johan Calitz Safaris, based in South Africa.





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[Jamastiene]

1. Sounds to me like Jimmy John needs an attitude adjustment

from the public, ala boycotts and making damn sure everyone knows what kind of filthy, disgusting asshole he is.

[woodsprite]

27. One just opened around work and hubby suggested we stop by and get a sub for lunch

I educated him on just why we weren't going to do that! I'm not sure exactly how much business they're getting. For a relatively new shop in a Univ. town, they didn't look very busy.

[SamKnause]

2. Vile human, absolutely vile !!!!!!

[Hoppy]

3. Another placei ain't gonna go to.

[Jenoch]

4. Non-compete clauses of thos sort are not enforcible.

If I had been stupid enough to sig. One I would not worry about it because it would cost more in legal fees to enforce than it is worth.

[titaniumsalute]

5. Actually in many states they are enforceable

Ohio is one of them. I used to work in an industry with a non-compete. I had friends sue to get out of them and they all lost. Some states have a right to work clause and non-competes are mostly not upheld. But many states do uphold them.

[Jenoch]

10. What was the area of expertise and the

industry you were working in?

[titaniumsalute]

12. Radio and TV

[Jenoch]

14. Ok, that makes sense (I have some experience in broadcasting as well.)

There is talent involved. There is a contract involved. I do not believe a fast food worker can be subject to a non-compete. I think it is just intimidation.

[titaniumsalute]

15. I completely agree that a sandwich maker is much different than either talent or sales

I get it in radio...if a big rated talk host walks out and goes to the station down the street they can do some pretty serious revenue damage to a radio station. Same thing if a veteran salesperson does the same thing.

I think that the states that uphold the contracts don't base it on industry but rather overall precedent. If they rule that a non-compete is not effective in one industry, how can they defend or draw the lines with other industries?

I think Jimmy Johns is a shit company for those intimidating practices. (Among other things...)

[Jenoch]

16. I've never heard of non-competes in sales.

Veteran sales people switch stations all the time.

[titaniumsalute]

17. Most radio and TV used to have non-competes

Not sure if they do now or not.

[Jenoch]

19. I live in the Twin Cities

and am a recovering radio advertising salesman (ha). The major talent on radio and TV have non-compete clauses, but I've seen sales people jump around. The sales managers are always poaching the big producers, sometimes making promises they don't keep.

[titaniumsalute]

21. I started on air in radio

I did evening talk radio. I was 19 years old and they made me sign a non-compete. (Like who the hell was going to steal me away...LOL.) I did that for six years and then went into sales to make a few bucks. Also had a non-compete. 50 mile radius which sucked because three metros were within 50 miles.

I honestly don't remember if I had a non-compete in sales when I moved to Ft. Myers and worked for Beasley. After that I spent 10 years at Arbitron. No non-compete...we had no competition.

I'm not in radio or TV now. I am a Regional Manager. My CEO wanted me to sign a non-compete. I told him no way. They still hired me.

[Jenoch]

23. In what business are you a regional manager?

I started as a 16 year old radio announcer at a small town station. I worked my way through college on the air and then went into sales. I worked at five different stations before getting into the other side of the business, ad/PR/government relations. I was never asked to sign a noncompete.

On a side note, the Poratable People Meter really shook things up in the radio ratings.

I am saddened at what has happened to the radio business since the 1996 Telecommunications Act relaxed the number of stations a corporation could own. Clear Channel, Cumulus, and Beasely for that matter, have not resulted as a good thing for radio broadcasting. I thino radio should always be locally owned and locally focused, just like politics. We'll never see local broadcasting again, except for the remainng few.

[titaniumsalute]

24. Radio is so not good anymore

In general radio is very weak today. As Clear Channel, Cumulus, and others started buying stations for huge dollar amounts they had to cut significant costs to pay for the debt. The result, of course, is piss poor radio today. Homogenized, sterile, and boring is the best way to describe most radio.

There, of course, are some exceptions. CBS still has a number of their all news stations like 1010 WINS, CBS 880, KYW, and WBBM. At least these stations are still 100% local content. But most is just a clone of 350 other stations around the country.

Yes, the PPM did shake things up. It is such a better measurement device than the diary. It ended up pointing out flaws in the diary therefore some formats did get tweaked in the ratings. Stations with big TSL generally went down in the PPM (the time spent listening was exaggerated in the diary) and stations with big Cume got even bigger (like Top 40/CHR.)

[Jenoch]

25. I'm in the Twin Cities and the CBS station

is still local, but the programming is terrible and it shows in their ratings. WCCO dominated the market for decades but is now a shadow of it's former self.

[tanyev]

6. They've got trade secrets on how to slap meat and cheese inside some bread?

[freebrew]

7. If the workers are under 18,

how can any contract be enforced? Don't the parents have to sign as well?

Just wondering...

[fasttense]

8. A non-compete clause does NOT have to be enforced through legal action to make it work

Yes, if Jimmy Johns sued its minimum wage employees to keep them from working for years in any fast food restaurant it would be ridiculously expensive. But they don't have to. All they have to do is let it be known in the area that they have this clause and employers in the area will NOT hire anyone putting that store on their resume. With so few jobs it would be quite easy to carefully avoid hiring prior Jimmy John employees. In affect, other employers enforce the clause for them. What employer wants to face possible legal action because they hired a minimum wage worker?

This is exactly what happened to my husband. He was a a low level manager and though he didn't put the experience on his resume, it frequently came out in interviews. Everyone knew his employer had a non-compete clause and did not want to hire him. He even asked one employer why he wasn't hired and she told him they didn't want a lawsuit from his former employer. And this was in a supposedly right to work state.

[Botany]

9. Well I'll never eat from that place again

piece of shit rich guy

[City Lights]

11. One sick mutha.

Haven't eaten there in years and definitely will never set foot in one of his shit sandwich shops again.

[Initech]

13. I knew that there was a reason to hate Jimmy Johns.

Giving money to that douchebag Sheriff Joe is all I need.

[jmowreader]

18. The decor he allows in his stores is enough of a reason for me

There's a Jimmy John's in downtown Spokane that has a "hippies, use back door" sign hanging on the wall. I refuse to patronize any business that has one, even at personal cost to me. And since Jimmy John's is a chain, I figure every business in that chain is equally culpable.

I've also seen the prices - way too expensive for what you get.

[truebrit71]

20. So I won't be going there any more...

Fuck that shit, canned hunting AND giving money to that racist piece of crap...

[NaturalHigh]

22. I don't know that we have any of those around here.

I've never been to one anyway. After seeing this, I'm glad. Liautaud is obviously a douchebag. In my opinion, anyone who hunts these animals is a douchebag.

[Dawson Leery]

26. Should Jimmy John's come to Connecticut (as Hobby Lobby has)

I will never shop there.