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Entire staff of Sonic walks off the job due to assumed paycut
« on: February 28, 2019, 02:28:41 PM »
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/entire-staffs-quit-at-sonic-drive-ins-in-ohio/ar-BBUdF9H?ocid=ientp

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Sonic confirmed that employees had walked off their jobs at the three restaurants the night of Friday, Feb. 22, but blamed the impromptu protests on a misunderstanding that spread ahead of a change in ownership on Monday, Feb. 25, from a franchisee to Sonic's operating affiliate, SRI Holdings.

Workers were reportedly led to believe that their hourly wages were being cut to $4 an hour plus tips, which would be a drastic drop from the $8.55 an hour minimum paid to non-tipped workers in Ohio. The minimum for tipped workers in the state is $4.30 an hour.

"Whatever hourly rate they were making last week, they are making this week," a spokesperson for Sonic told CBS MoneyWatch. All Sonic workers in the state earn at least the non-tipped minimum wage, with tips given to car hops at its restaurants coming in addition to that, said the spokesperson, who blamed a disgruntled manager who lost their job in the transition for spreading rumors.

I hope there's more to this.  It reads like the employees believed they'd take a pay cut without seeing anything in writing or waiting to come back to work to see what would happen. That's just - incredibly stupid.

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Re: Entire staff of Sonic walks off the job due to assumed paycut
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2019, 10:44:21 AM »
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/entire-staffs-quit-at-sonic-drive-ins-in-ohio/ar-BBUdF9H?ocid=ientp

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Sonic confirmed that employees had walked off their jobs at the three restaurants the night of Friday, Feb. 22, but blamed the impromptu protests on a misunderstanding that spread ahead of a change in ownership on Monday, Feb. 25, from a franchisee to Sonic's operating affiliate, SRI Holdings.

Workers were reportedly led to believe that their hourly wages were being cut to $4 an hour plus tips, which would be a drastic drop from the $8.55 an hour minimum paid to non-tipped workers in Ohio. The minimum for tipped workers in the state is $4.30 an hour.

"Whatever hourly rate they were making last week, they are making this week," a spokesperson for Sonic told CBS MoneyWatch. All Sonic workers in the state earn at least the non-tipped minimum wage, with tips given to car hops at its restaurants coming in addition to that, said the spokesperson, who blamed a disgruntled manager who lost their job in the transition for spreading rumors.

I hope there's more to this.  It reads like the employees believed they'd take a pay cut without seeing anything in writing or waiting to come back to work to see what would happen. That's just - incredibly stupid.



Idk , I would tend to agree that there is alot more to it than that. There is always somebody if not several that are going to be desperate enough to not just walk off without having something else line up.