Senate Bill 93 requires hospitality businesses to offer employees who were laid off due to COVID-19 the opportunity to return to work in order of seniority.
, alleging the airline catering company was slow to recall 21 workers who were laid off during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic once business picked up again.
“This law was intended to end the displacement of workers during the pandemic due to no fault of their own, and that’s exactly what we are pursuing in this case,” Labor Commissioner Lilia García-Brower said in a statement.Sonia Ceron, a dishwasher with the company, was laid off in February 2020 and eventually brought back — but not until August 2022. The 35-year-old Inglewood resident said Flying Food could have recalled her much sooner but opted instead to hire new workers.
That citation came in response to a Cal/OSHA complaint filed by four workers who alleged that on Feb. 2 management locked multiple exit doors — including one that was secured with a metal plate — the same dayEarlier that day, employees noticed the company had hired additional security guards. And the dispatch door, which serves as an exit for staff working in the receiving area, storeroom and kitchen areas, was being bolted shut, the complaint said.
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